The Glen Canyon Country: A Personal Memoir

ISBN-13: 9781607811343 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 432 str.

Don D. Fowler

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In his new book, "The Glen Canyon Country," archaeologist Don D. Fowler shares the history of a place and the peoples who sojourned there over the course of several thousand years. To tell this story, he weaves his personal experience as a student working on the Glen Canyon Salvage Project with accounts of early explorers, geologists, miners, railroad developers, settlers, river runners, and others who entered this magical place. The book details the canyon s story via historical and scientific summaries, biographical sketches, personal memoir, and previously unpublished photos of the land and its explorers.Readers will experience the intrigue and beauty of the Canyon while following not only the story of an individual but also of Glen Canyon itself. Infused with the breadth and depth of a lifetime of archaeological experience, "The Glen Canyon Country" is the definitive account of the prehistory and history of a significant river corridor and the surrounding land."

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Contents

List of Illustrations

Foreword by W. L. Rusho 

Preface and Acknowledgments

1. Prelude

2. The Glen Canyon Country and Its First Explorers, 1776-1856 

3. Mapping and Defining the Glen Canyon Country   

4. John Wesley Powell and the Canyon Country, 1867-1869

5. Powell and the Glen Canyon Country 

6. Powell, the U.S. Geological Survey, and the Canyon Country 

7. Laccoliths and Grand Staircases: The Work of C. E. Dutton and G. K. Gilbert 

8. Glen Canyon Country Geology in the Twentieth Century 

9. Colorado Canyon Railroad and Gold Fever: Stanton and Spencer 

10. Romancing the Glen Canyon Country 

11. Pack Trips and River Running: Exploring the Country for Fun

12. Harnessing the Colorado River 

13. Early Archaeology in the Glen Canyon Country

14. The Enamored Explorers 

15. The Glen Canyon Project: Beginnings 

16. Implementing the Glen Canyon Project  

17. The 1959 and 1960 Seasons 

18. The 1961 and 1962 Seasons 

19. The Museum of Northern Arizona and the Glen Canyon Project 

20. Lives and Times of Sojourners in the Glen Canyon Country 

21. Postlude: The Glen Canyon Country of the Imagination 

Notes 

Bibliography 

Index