River Flowing From The Sunrise : An Environmental History of the Lower San Juan / / James M. Aton, Robert S. McPherson.

The authors recount twelve millennia of history along the lower San Juan River, much of it the story of mostly unsuccessful human attempts to make a living from the river's arid and fickle environment. From the Anasazi to government dam builders, from Navajo to Mormon herders and farmers, from...

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Place / Publishing House:Logan : : Utah State University Press,, 2000.
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Year of Publication:2000
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (234 p.)
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505 0 |a Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction Twelve Millennia on the San Juan; I Prehistory: From Clovis Hunters to Corn Farmers; II Navajos, Paiutes, and Utes: Views of a Sacred Land; III Exploration and Science: Defining Terra Incognita; IV Livestock: Cows, Feed, and Floods; V Agriculture: Ditches, Droughts, and Disasters; VI City Building: Farming the Triad; VII Mining: Black and Yellow Gold in Redrock Country; VIII The Federal Government: Dams, Tamarisk, and Pikeminnows; IX San Juan of the Imagination: Local and National Values 
505 8 |a EPILOGUE Visions: Flowing from the Sunrise or a Water Spigot?Notes; Bibliography; Index 
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