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1 online resource (xii, 216 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Foreword: A river in time -- Introduction: Twelve millennia on the San Juan -- ch. 1, Prehistory: from clovis hunters to corn farmers -- ch. 2, Navajos, Paiutes, and Utes: views of a sacred land -- ch. 3, Exploration and science: defining terra incognita -- ch. 4, Livestock: cows, feed, and floods -- ch. 5, Agriculture: ditches, droughts, and disasters -- ch. 6, City building: farming the triad -- ch. 7, Mining: black and yellow gold in redrock country -- ch. 8, The federal government: dams, tamarisk, and pikeminnows -- ch. 9, San Juan of the imagination: local and national values -- Epilogue: Visions: flowing from the sunrise or a water spigot? |
| Summary |
Natural history of the lower San Juan River in the US Southwest |
| 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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Human ecology -- San Juan River Valley (Colo.-Utah) -- History
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- San Juan River Valley (Colo.-Utah)
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
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Ecology.
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Human ecology.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
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San Juan River Valley (Colo.-Utah) -- Environmental conditions
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United States -- San Juan River Valley.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
McPherson, Robert S., 1947-
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| ISBN |
9780874214031 |
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0874214033 |
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9780874213973 |
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0874213975 |
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