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Westwater Lost And Found
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Author : Mike Milligan
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Release Date : 2024-04-15
Westwater Lost And Found written by Mike Milligan and has been published by University Press of Colorado this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-15 with History categories.
Westwater Lost and Found: Expanded Edition is the continuing story of Westwater—a relatively short, deep canyon near the Utah-Colorado state line that has become one of the most popular river-running destinations in the Southwest—and its lasting significance to the study of the Upper Colorado River. Thousands of recreational river runners have pushed this backwater place into the foreground of modern popular culture in the West. Westwater represents one common sequence in western history: the late opening of unexplored territories, the sporadic and ultimately often unsuccessful attempts to develop them, their renewed obscurity when development doesn’t succeed, their attraction to a marginal society of dreamers and schemers, and the modern rediscovery of them due to new cultural motives, especially outdoor recreation, which has brought many people into thousands of remote corners of the West. This expanded edition brings to light historical events and explores how Westwater’s location greatly contributed to early Grand (Upper) Colorado River boaters’ knowledge and how the lush Westwater Valley and Cisco became critical stops for water, wood, and grass along the North Branch of the Old Spanish Trail. Other new additions include explorer Ellsworth Kolb’s unpublished manuscript describing his 1916–1917 boating experiences on the Grand and Gunnison Rivers; two stories relating to Outlaw Cave, one of which expands upon the mystery of the outlaw brothers; a letter from James E. Miller to Frederick S. Dellenbaugh in 1906 revealing new information about his boating excursion with Oro DeGarmo Babcock on the Grand River in 1897; and a portion of botanist Frederick Kreutzfeld’s little-known journal of 1853 that describes Captain John W. Gunnison’s railroad survey. Loaded with extensive information and river-running history, Milligan’s guide is sure to enhance readers’ knowledge of the Upper Colorado River and Grand Canyon regions. Boaters, river guides, scholars of the American West, and historians of the Colorado, Green, and Gunnison Rivers or the Old Spanish Trail will gain much from this new edition.
Westwater Lost And Found
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Author : Mike Milligan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004-02
Westwater Lost And Found written by Mike Milligan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-02 with History categories.
In this heavily illustrated book, Mike Milligan has captured the still developing story of one of those remote, but no longer secluded, corners of the Colorado Plateau. Upstream from Moab on the Colorado River, near the Colorado state line, there is a relatively short, deep canyon that has become one of the most popular river-running destinations in America. The canyon is known as Westwater. Its popularity is largely due to the thrill provided by one of the most dangerous and challenging stretches of white water on the Colorado---Skull Rapid. Near the head of the canyon are the remnants of the tiny town of Westwater, which has had an interesting and eventful history of its own, partly because of the river and canyon, partly because of the railroad that passes through it, and partly because of its remoteness. It has attracted over the years more than its fair share of colorful characters---government explorers and agents, boosters and get-rich-quick dreamers, cattle and sheep men, outlaws and bootleggers, and, of course, river runners. Mike Milligan, who came to know the area as a river guide, has written a thorough history of this out-of-the-way place. While it has a colorful history that makes its story interesting in and of itself, Westwater's significance derives more from a phenomenon of the modern West-thousands of recreational river runners. They have pushed a backwater place into the foreground of modern popular culture in the West. Westwater seems to represent one common sequence in western history: the late opening of unexplored territories; sporadic, often unsuccessful attempts to develop them; renewed obscurity when development doesn't succeed; their attraction of a marginal society of misfits or loners; and modern rediscovery due to new cultural motives, especially outdoors recreation, which has brought a great number of people into thousands of remote corners of the West.
Platte West Water Production Facilities Douglas And Saunders Counties
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Platte West Water Production Facilities Douglas And Saunders Counties written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with categories.
American Environmental History
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Author : Carolyn Merchant
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2007
American Environmental History written by Carolyn Merchant and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Business & Economics categories.
By studying the many ways diverse peoples have changed, shaped, and conserved the natural world over time, environmental historians provide insight into humanity's unique relationship with nature and, more importantly, are better able to understand the origins of our current environmental crisis. Beginning with the precolonial land-use practice of Native Americans and concluding with our twenty-first century concerns over our global ecological crisis, American Environmental History addresses contentious issues such as the preservation of the wilderness, the expulsion of native peoples from national parks, and population growth, and considers the formative forces of gender, race, and class. Entries address a range of topics, from the impact of rice cultivation, slavery, and the growth of the automobile suburb to the effects of the Russian sea otter trade, Columbia River salmon fisheries, the environmental justice movement, and globalization. This illustrated reference is an essential companion for students interested in the ongoing transformation of the American landscape and the conflicts over its resources and conservation. It makes rich use of the tools and resources (climatic and geological data, court records, archaeological digs, and the writings of naturalists) that environmental historians rely on to conduct their research. The volume also includes a compendium of significant people, concepts, events, agencies, and legislation, and an extensive bibliography of critical films, books, and Web sites.
Utah Historical Quarterly
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Author : J. Cecil Alter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Utah Historical Quarterly written by J. Cecil Alter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Utah categories.
List of charter members of the society: v. 1, p. 98-99.
Lost And Found
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Author : Elizabeth Drayton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Lost And Found written by Elizabeth Drayton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Hats categories.
The Journal Of Arizona History
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965
The Journal Of Arizona History written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with Arizona categories.
Bread Winner
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Author : Emma Griffin
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2020-04-14
Bread Winner written by Emma Griffin and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-14 with History categories.
The overlooked story of how ordinary women and their husbands managed financially in the Victorian era – and why so many struggled despite increasing national prosperityNineteenth century Britain saw remarkable economic growth and a rise in real wages. But not everyone shared in the nation’s wealth. Unable to earn a sufficient income themselves, working-class women were reliant on the ‘breadwinner wage’ of their husbands. When income failed, or was denied or squandered by errant men, families could be plunged into desperate poverty from which there was no escape.Emma Griffin unlocks the homes of Victorian England to examine the lives – and finances – of the people who lived there. Drawing on over 600 working-class autobiographies, including more than 200 written by women, Bread Winner changes our understanding of daily life in Victorian Britain.
Roads In The Wilderness
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Author : Jedediah Smart Rogers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Roads In The Wilderness written by Jedediah Smart Rogers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with History categories.
Analyzes the critical role of roads and clashing worldviews in historical fights over wilderness in southern Utah and Northern Arizona
The Very Hard Way
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Author : Brad Dimock
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
The Very Hard Way written by Brad Dimock and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Bert Loper was born in 1869 the very day that Major John Wesley Powell discovered the confluence of the San Juan and Colorado Rivers. Loper spent much of his life devoted to those two streams. But it was never easy. Orphaned and abused, Loper worked most of his life at the very bottom, the nameless grunt in hard rock mines, the sore-backed shoveler on a placer bar, the subsistence rancher on a lonely gravel delta in Glen Canyon. Whatever Loper got, he got the very hard way. But on the muddy whitewater streams of the Southwest, Loper found a joy, a thrill, and a peace. By the time he died at his oars in a Grand Canyon rapid at eighty, he had covered more river, run more boats and known more rivermen than anyone"--P. [4] of cover.