| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 289 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Water and the Colorado desert -- Where should the dams be? politics, the Colorado River Compact, and the Geological Survey's role -- Prelude to an expedition : Washington and Flagstaff -- A cumbersome journey : Flagstaff to Lee's Ferry to the Little Colorado River -- Surveys and portages : Furnace Flats through the Inner Gorge -- Of flips and floods : Bass Canyon to Diamond Creek -- Feeling their oats : Diamond Creek to Needles -- Aftermath : politics and the strident hydraulic engineer |
| Summary |
In 1923, America paid close attention, via special radio broadcasts, newspaper headlines, and cover stories in popular magazines, as a government party descended the Colorado to survey Grand Canyon. Fifty years after John Wesley Powell's journey, the canyon still had an aura of mystery and extreme danger. At one point, the party was thought lost in a flood. Something important besides adventure was going on. Led by Claude Birdseye and including colorful characters such as early river-runner Emery Kolb, popular writer Lewis Freeman, and hydraulic engineer Eugene La Rue, the expedition not only |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Geological Survey (U.S.) -- History -- 20th century
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Geological Survey (U.S.) -- Biography
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Geological Survey (U.S.) fast |
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River surveys -- Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) -- History -- 20th century
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Dams -- Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) -- History -- 20th century
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Water-supply -- Political aspects -- Arizona -- Grand Canyon -- History -- 20th century
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Water resources development -- Arizona -- Grand Canyon -- History -- 20th century
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TRAVEL -- United States -- West -- Mountain (AZ, CO, ID, MT, NM, UT, WY)
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
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Dams
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Ecology
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River surveys
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Travel
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Water resources development
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Water-supply -- Political aspects
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Grand Canyon (Ariz.) -- Description and travel
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Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) -- Description and travel
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Grand Canyon (Ariz.) -- Environmental conditions
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Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) -- Environmental conditions
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Arizona -- Grand Canyon
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North America -- Colorado River
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Webb, Robert H.
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Geological Survey (U.S.)
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| ISBN |
9780874216653 |
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0874216656 |
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9786613267405 |
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6613267406 |
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