Exploration of the Grand Canyon has attracted
the attention of adventurers from Coronado to Roosevelt and captured the
imaginations of millions worldwide. In the early part of the twentieth century,
development of the canyon as a tourist destination, a source of mining
prospects, an artistic subject, and a geological wonder increased at tremendous
rates due to the linking of the Santa Fe railroad line with the canyon's edge
from Williams and Flagstaff.
Rudy J. Gerber's The Railroad and the Canyon is a historical
expedition into the events that led...