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In 1923, America paid close attention, via special radio broadcasts, newspaper headlines, and cover stories in popular magazines, as a government party descended the Colorado to survey Grand Canyon. Fifty years after John Wesley Powell's journey, the canyon still had an aura of mystery and extr...

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Boyer, Diane E.
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Place / Publishing House:Logan, Utah : : Utah State University Press,, 2007.
©2007.
Year of Publication:2007
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
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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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In 1923, America paid close attention, via special radio broadcasts, newspaper headlines, and cover stories in popular magazines, as a government party descended the Colorado to survey Grand Canyon. Fifty years after John Wesley Powell's journey, the canyon still had an aura of mystery and extreme danger. At one point, the party was thought lost in a flood. Something important besides adventure was going on. Led by Claude Birdseye and including colorful characters such as early river-runner Emery Kolb, popular writer Lewis Freeman, and hydraulic engineer Eugene La Rue, the exped
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Dams Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) History 20th century.
River surveys Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) History 20th century.
Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) Environmental conditions.
Grand Canyon (Ariz.) Environmental conditions.
Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) Description and travel.
Grand Canyon (Ariz.) Description and travel.
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