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The Glen Canyon reader / edited by Mathew Barrett Gross.
- Title
- The Glen Canyon reader / edited by Mathew Barrett Gross.
- Publication
- Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2003.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | F832.G5 G56 2003 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Gross, Mathew Barrett, 1972-
- Description
- viii, 200 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- In 1963, the damming of the Colorado River near Page, Arizona flooded the Glen Canyon and created Lake Powell, the second-largest reservoir in the Western Hemisphere. This anthology presents more than a dozen contributions from writers describing their experiences of the canyon before its demise.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-200).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Excerpt from the Domínguez-Escalante journal / translated by Fray Angelico Chavez, edited by Ted J. Warner -- The exploration of Glen Canyon / by John Wesley Powell -- Into Glen Canyon / by Frederick S. Dellenbaugh -- Nonnezoshe / by Zane Grey -- Delightful journey / by Barry Goldwater -- Forbidden passage / by Charles Eggert -- Visit to a drowning canyon / by Frank L. Griffin -- The salvage seasons / by Russell Martin -- Excerpt from all my rivers are gone / by Katie Lee -- Excerpt from encounters with the archdruid / by John McPhee -- Lake Powell : jewel of the Colorado / by Floyd Dominy -- The damnation of a canyon / by Edward Abbey -- Glen canyon submersus / by Wallace Stegner -- Excerpt from there was a river / by Bruce Berger -- Travels with seldom / by Ellen Meloy -- A far country / by Ann Weiler Walka -- Let the river run through it / by David Brower -- Glen Canyon and the persistence of wilderness / by Jared Farmer.
- ISBN
- 0816522421 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2002010529
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library