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"The Grand Canyon has inspired storytellers and mythmakers for centuries. Stories told of it in oral traditions, books, newspapers, and brochures have entertained and fired the imaginations of listeners and readers with descriptions of subliminal beauty and endless adventure. The best Grand Canyon raconteur of them all might be John Hance, the first permanent Euro-American settler at Grand Canyon, a river guide, and a teller of such tall tales that his talent for spinning yarns helped establish the tourist trade at Grand Canyon more than a hundred years ago. Yet, as Shane Murphy points out, Hance's name is now largely forgotten. Visitors to Grand Canyon National Park won't find a statue of Hance or a commemorative sign or plaque with his name on it. Those who ride the Colorado River through the canyon might learn a little about Hance from a guide when they descend Hance Rapids, the longest and steepest of them all. Otherwise the name John Hance, which was once synonymous with Grand Canyon, is no longer part of its story. Shane Murphy's biography is an effort to rescue Hance from obscurity. It provides insights into Hance's life before he went west with his family to strike it rich as a miner in Arizona Territory. More importantly, Murphy shows how Hance and his outsized personality brought the wonders of an equally outsized landscape to the attention of would-be travelers before the days of the National Park Service and the creation of Grand Canyon National Park in 1919"--
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Although John Wesley Powell and party are usually given credit for the first river descent through the Grand Canyon, the ghost of James White has haunted those claims. White was a Colorado prospector, who, almost two years before Powell's journey, washed up on a makeshift raft at Callville, Nevada. His claim to have entered the Colorado above the San Juan River with another man (soon drowned) as they fled from Indians was widely disseminated and believed for a time, but Powell and his successors on the river publically discounted it. Colorado River runners and historians have s
Gold miners --- White, James, --- Travel --- Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) --- Grand Canyon (Ariz.) --- Discovery and exploration. --- Description and travel. --- Gold prospectors --- Prospectors, Gold --- Miners
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Explorers --- Sumner, John Colton --- Howland, Oramel --- Howland, Seneca --- White, James, --- Powell, John Wesley, --- Travel --- Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) --- Grand Canyon (Ariz.) --- Discovery and exploration. --- Description and travel.
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Grand Canyon For Sale is a carefully researched investigation of the precarious future of America's public lands: our national parks, forests, wildlife refuges, monuments, and wildernesses. Taking the Grand Canyon as his key example, and using on-the-ground reporting as well as scientific research, Stephen Nash shows how accelerating climate change will dislocate wildlife populations and vegetation across hundreds of thousands of square miles of the national landscape. In addition, a growing political movement, well financed and occasionally violent, is fighting to break up these federal lands and return them to state, local, and private control. That scheme would foreclose the future for many wild species, which are part of our irreplaceable natural heritage, and also would devastate our national parks, forests, and other public lands. To safeguard wildlife and their habitats, it is essential to consolidate protected areas and prioritize natural systems over mining, grazing, drilling, and logging. Grand Canyon For Sale provides an excellent overview of the physical and biological challenges facing public lands. The book also exposes and shows how to combat the political activity that threatens these places in the U.S. today.
Public lands --- Environmental aspects --- Grand Canyon (Ariz.) --- Environmental conditions. --- american culture. --- backpackers. --- consumerism. --- economist. --- environmentalism. --- foreclosure. --- forests. --- hikers. --- national parks. --- natural history. --- north america. --- on the ground reporting. --- physical and biological challenges. --- preservation. --- preservationists. --- public land. --- public lands.
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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 exped
Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) - Description and travel. --- Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) -- Description and travel. --- Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) - Environmental conditions. --- Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) -- Environmental conditions. --- Dams - Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) - History - 20th century. --- Dams -- Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) -- History -- 20th century. --- Geological Survey (U.S.). --- Geological Survey (U.S.) -- Biography. --- Geological Survey (U.S.) -- History -- 20th century. --- Grand Canyon (Ariz.) - Description and travel. --- Grand Canyon (Ariz.) - Environmental conditions. --- Grand Canyon (Ariz.) -- Environmental conditions. --- River surveys - Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) - History - 20th century. --- River surveys -- Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) -- History -- 20th century. --- Water resources development - Arizona - Grand Canyon - History - 20th century. --- Water resources development -- Arizona -- Grand Canyon -- History -- 20th century. --- Water-supply - Political aspects - Arizona - Grand Canyon - History - 20th century. --- Water-supply -- Political aspects -- Arizona -- Grand Canyon -- History -- 20th century. --- River surveys --- Dams --- Water-supply --- Water resources development --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- United States Local History --- History --- Political aspects --- Geological Survey (U.S.) --- Grand Canyon (Ariz.) --- Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) --- Description and travel. --- Environmental conditions. --- Availability, Water --- Water availability --- Water resources --- River surveying --- Rivers --- Surveying --- U.S.G.S. --- U.S. Geological Survey --- United States. --- Servicio Geológico de los Estados Unidos --- United States Geological Survey --- USGS --- Energy development --- Natural resources --- Public utilities --- Water utilities --- Diversion structures (Hydraulic engineering) --- Earthwork --- Hydraulic structures --- River engineering --- Barrages --- Surveys --- Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region (U.S.) --- Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.) --- Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.)
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If the word ""hero"" still belonged in the historian's lexicon, it would certainly be applied to John Wesley Powell. Intrepid explorer, careful scientist, talented writer, and dedicated conservationist, Powell led the expedition that put the Colorado River on American maps and revealed the Grand Canyon to the world. Now comes the first biography of this towering figure in almost fifty years--a book that captures his life in all its heroism, idealism, and ambivalent, ambiguous humanity. In A River Running West, Donald Worster, one of our leading Western historians, tells the story of Powell's g
Explorers --- Conservationists --- Powell, John Wesley, --- Powell, Wes, --- Powell, J. W. --- Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) --- Grand Canyon (Ariz.) --- West (U.S.) --- American West --- Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) --- United States, Western --- Western States (U.S.) --- Western United States --- Discovery and exploration. --- E-books
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Arid regions --- Explorers --- Geologists --- Conservationists --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- United States Local History --- Arid lands --- Arid zones --- Dry lands --- Dryland regions --- Drylands --- Lands, Arid --- Regions, Arid --- Regions, Semiarid --- Semi-arid regions --- Semi-arid zones --- Semiarid regions --- Sub-humid lands --- Zones, Arid --- Extreme environments --- Powell, John Wesley, --- Philosophy. --- Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) --- West (U.S.) --- Grand Canyon (Ariz.) --- Description and travel. --- Environmental conditions. --- Powell, Wes, --- Powell, J. W. --- American West --- Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) --- United States, Western --- Western States (U.S.) --- Western United States --- Description and travel
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