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Lee's Ferry : a crossing on the Colorado / Evelyn Brack Measeles.

Title
Lee's Ferry : a crossing on the Colorado / Evelyn Brack Measeles.
Author
Measeles, Evelyn Brack, 1921-
Publication
Boulder, CO : Pruett Pub. Co., c1981.

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Description
130 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
A history of the river crossing used by Mormons, miners, and the military during the westward push through Arizona and Utah.
Subject
  • Lee, John D. 1812-1877
  • Lee, John D. 1812-1877
  • 1857
  • Mountain Meadows Massacre, Utah, 1857
  • Latter Day Saints > Utah > Biography
  • Lees Ferry (Ariz.) > History
Genre/Form
  • Biographies
  • History
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. [116]-121.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Heritage of the river -- Eye of the storm and the outward edge -- Return to the river -- The push south and oncoming tide -- Railways and the river -- Gold and the river -- The ferries: a photo essay -- Welding of the intermountain West -- Lee's Ferry Bridge: a photo essay -- Adventureres of a different order -- Dams and river water -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Index.
ISBN
0871085763
LCCN
^^^80028368^//r82
OCLC
  • 7172779
  • SCSB-11189252
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library