Polishing The Jewel An Administrative History Of Grand Canyon National Park
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Polishing The Jewel
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Author : Michael F. Anderson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Polishing The Jewel written by Michael F. Anderson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Travel categories.
Grand Canyon National Park
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Author : Doreen Gonzales
language : en
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
Release Date : 2008-07-01
Grand Canyon National Park written by Doreen Gonzales and has been published by Enslow Publishing, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
"A virtual tour of Grand Canyon National Park, with chapters devoted to the history of this region, history of the park, plant and animal life, environmental problems facing the park, and activities in the area"--Provided by publisher.
Discover Great National Parks Grand Canyon
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Author : Claire O'Neal
language : en
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
Release Date : 2024-02-06
Discover Great National Parks Grand Canyon written by Claire O'Neal and has been published by Fox Chapel Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-06 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Discover Great National Parks: Grand Canyon is an excellent non-fiction book for young learners. It features historical information about the Grand Canyon, how it was formed and what the layers of dirt mean in the earth's geological history. It also includes information on its association with the Native American Tribes that live there, wildlife in the canyon including the Grand Canyon pink rattlesnake, rock squirrels, elk, condor, and more! See beautiful pictures of the Grand Canyon--both historical and current--and learn interesting fun facts about the park. For research, it includes chapter notes, suggested readings, and glossary.
Water Doors And Buildings Studies In The History Of Construction
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Author : James Campbell
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2019
Water Doors And Buildings Studies In The History Of Construction written by James Campbell and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Art categories.
This volume presents 50 peer-reviewed papers presented at the Sixth Annual Conference of the Construction History Society held at Queens' College Cambridge from 5-7 April 2019 which cover a wide variety of topics on aspects of construction history with a section devoted entirely to papers on water engineering.
Grand Canyon S Phantom Ranch
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Author : Robert W. Audretsch
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2012-02-13
Grand Canyon S Phantom Ranch written by Robert W. Audretsch and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-13 with Photography categories.
Phantom Ranch is nestled in the Grand Canyon basin on the Colorado River—a location hardly visible from the rim and only accessible after a journey through scores of geologic layers. The only way there is by river rafting, hiking, or mule, and with each foot of the journey, the traveler descends 30,000 years in geologic time. While at Phantom Ranch, the view looking above is of 1.7 billion years of geology, all swirling together in an alphabet of colors. Grand Canyon’s Phantom Ranch is the story of the rustic buildings designed by architect Mary Jane Colter in 1921, of the park’s first peoples, river rafters, the early trail and bridge builders, and dramatic flash floods. When travelers leave Phantom Ranch, they are never the same. For some of them, departing is as if they have just said good-bye to an old friend.
Grand Canyon
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Author : Don Lago
language : en
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Release Date : 2015-10-01
Grand Canyon written by Don Lago and has been published by University of Nevada Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-01 with Travel categories.
The Grand Canyon has long inspired deep emotions and responses. For the Native Americans who lived there, the canyon was home, full of sacred meanings. For the first European settlers to see it, the canyon drove them to great exploration adventures and Wild West dreams of wealth. The canyon also held deep importance for America’s pioneer conservationists such as Teddy Roosevelt, John Muir, and Aldo Leopold, and it played a central role in the emerging environmental movement. The Grand Canyon became a microcosm of the history and evolving values of the National Park Service, long conflicted between encouraging tourism and protecting nature. Many vivid characters shaped the canyon’s past. Its largest story is one of cultural history and changing American visions of the land. Grand Canyon: A History of a Natural Wonder and National Park is a mixture of great storytelling, unlikely characters, and important ideas. The book will appeal to both general readers and scholars interested in seeking a broader understanding of the canyon.
Saving Grand Canyon
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Author : Byron E Pearson
language : en
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Release Date : 2019-09-25
Saving Grand Canyon written by Byron E Pearson and has been published by University of Nevada Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-25 with Nature categories.
2020 Winner of the Southwest Book Awards 2020 Spur Awards Finalist Contemporary Nonfiction, Western Writers of America The Grand Canyon has been saved from dams three times in the last century. Unthinkable as it may seem today, many people promoted damming the Colorado River in the canyon during the early twentieth century as the most feasible solution to the water and power needs of the Pacific Southwest. These efforts reached their climax during the 1960s when the federal government tried to build two massive hydroelectric dams in the Grand Canyon. Although not located within the Grand Canyon National Park or Monument, they would have flooded lengthy, unprotected reaches of the canyon and along thirteen miles of the park boundary. Saving Grand Canyon tells the remarkable true story of the attempts to build dams in one of America’s most spectacular natural wonders. Based on twenty-five years of research, this fascinating ride through history chronicles a hundred years of Colorado River water development, demonstrates how the National Environmental Policy Act came to be, and challenges the myth that the Sierra Club saved the Grand Canyon. It also shows how the Sierra Club parlayed public perception as the canyon’s savior into the leadership of the modern environmental movement after the National Environmental Policy Act became law. The tale of the Sierra Club stopping the dams has become so entrenched—and so embellished—that many historians, popular writers, and filmmakers have ignored the documented historical record. This epic story puts the events from 1963–1968 into the broader context of Colorado River water development and debunks fifty years of Colorado River and Grand Canyon myths.
The Grand Canyon
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Author : Randy Moore
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2018-06-15
The Grand Canyon written by Randy Moore and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-15 with History categories.
This single-volume encyclopedia examines the Grand Canyon in depth, from the native peoples who have survived there for centuries to the explorers who charted its vast expanses and to the challenges that Grand Canyon National Park faces. The Grand Canyon is one of the most internationally recognized landscapes and symbols of nature in North America. In this one-volume encyclopedia, readers can dive into the many people, places, stories, and issues associated with the Grand Canyon as well as the scientific, religious, and social contexts of events that have made the Grand Canyon what it is. At the front of the encyclopedia are thematic essays that examine the Grand Canyon's history, geography, and culture. Essays cover topics including John Wesley Powell, to whom the Grand Canyon "belongs," the Native Americans who live at the Grand Canyon, and the future of the Grand Canyon. Following the thematic essays are approximately 150 topical entries focusing on more specific aspects of the Grand Canyon, such as trails and camps, natural formations, and courageous heroes as well as shameless profiteers who have influenced the Grand Canyon's history. The encyclopedia is rounded out by a chronology of human history at the Grand Canyon, a Grand Canyon "at a glance" section, and multiple fact-based sidebars. Through the people, places, and stories explored in this work, readers will gain a better understanding of how the history of the Grand Canyon is relevant to the world today.
Grand Canyon Women
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Author : Betty Leavengood
language : en
Publisher: Grand Canyon Association
Release Date : 2004
Grand Canyon Women written by Betty Leavengood and has been published by Grand Canyon Association this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Grand Canyon Women tells the humorous and heartbreaking stories of twenty-six remarkable women--Native Americans, river runners, scientists, wranglers, architects, rangers, hikers, and housewives--each of whom, in the midst of nature's indiscriminate universe, discovers her identity.
Trace
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Author : Lauret Savoy
language : en
Publisher: Catapult
Release Date : 2016-09-13
Trace written by Lauret Savoy and has been published by Catapult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-13 with Social Science categories.
With a New Preface by the Author Through personal journeys and historical inquiry, this PEN Literary Award finalist explores how America’s still unfolding history and ideas of “race” have marked its people and the land. Sand and stone are Earth’s fragmented memory. Each of us, too, is a landscape inscribed by memory and loss. One life–defining lesson Lauret Savoy learned as a young girl was this: the American land did not hate. As an educator and Earth historian, she has tracked the continent’s past from the relics of deep time; but the paths of ancestors toward her—paths of free and enslaved Africans, colonists from Europe, and peoples indigenous to this land—lie largely eroded and lost. A provocative and powerful mosaic that ranges across a continent and across time, from twisted terrain within the San Andreas Fault zone to a South Carolina plantation, from national parks to burial grounds, from “Indian Territory” and the U.S.–Mexico Border to the U.S. capital, Trace grapples with a searing national history to reveal the often unvoiced presence of the past. In distinctive and illuminating prose that is attentive to the rhythms of language and landscapes, she weaves together human stories of migration, silence, and displacement, as epic as the continent they survey, with uplifted mountains, braided streams, and eroded canyons. Gifted with this manifold vision, and graced by a scientific and lyrical diligence, she delves through fragmented histories—natural, personal, cultural—to find shadowy outlines of other stories of place in America. "Every landscape is an accumulation," reads one epigraph. "Life must be lived amidst that which was made before." Courageously and masterfully, Lauret Savoy does so in this beautiful book: she lives there, making sense of this land and its troubled past, reconciling what it means to inhabit terrains of memory—and to be one.