Damming Grand Canyon : the 1923 USGS Colorado River expedition / / Diane E. Boyer and Robert H. Webb ; U.S. Geological Survey ; foreword by Michael Collier.
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| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 289 p. :; ill., maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- Water and the Colorado desert
- Where should the dams be? politics, the Colorado River Compact, and the Geological Survey's role
- Prelude to an expedition : Washington and Flagstaff
- A cumbersome journey : Flagstaff to Lee's Ferry to the Little Colorado River
- Surveys and portages : Furnace Flats through the Inner Gorge
- Of flips and floods : Bass Canyon to Diamond Creek
- Feeling their oats : Diamond Creek to Needles
- Aftermath : politics and the strident hydraulic engineer.