Damming Grand Canyon : The 1923 USGS Colorado River Expedition / / Diane E. Boyer and Robert H. Webb ; U.S. Geological Survey ; foreword by Michael Collier.
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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| 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.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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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.