Glen Canyon Dammed : Inventing Lake Powell and the Canyon Country

by Farmer, Jared

• ISBN13: 9780816519927
• ISBN10: 0816519927
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of Arizona Pr

Summary

Growth is a major issue in the contemporary American West, especially as more and more towns and states turn to tourism to spark their economies. But growth has a flip side -- loss -- about which we seldom think until something is irrevocably gone.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	viii
List of Maps	ix
Preface	xi
Part 1 The Road to Discovery
Road Map	2	(2)
Hole in the Rock	4	(6)
Fix the Roads, the Tourists Are Coming!	10	(12)
U-Boom	22	(11)
The Golden Circle	33	(8)
Right-of-Way	41	(4)
Boulder Blues	45	(3)
Dandy Crossing	48	(10)
Coda	58	(4)
Part 2 Exploration and Thrill
The Moving People	62	(4)
The Summer of 1909	66	(6)
Desert Dudes	72	(22)
Down the River	94	(17)
The Most Exciting Lake on Earth	111	(5)
Closing Time	116	(6)
Part 3 Beauty Made Accessible
Deja Vu	122	(4)
Was It Worth It?	126	(3)
The Reclamation Dream	129	(8)
Echo Park	137	(9)
Rival Crown Jewels	146	(12)
Paradise---For a Price	158	(5)
The Problem of Rainbow Bridge	163	(8)
Beach Party!	171	(4)
Lake Foul	175	(2)
Squawfish Memories	177	(5)
Drain This?	182	(9)
Afterword	191	(22)
An Outline History of Glen Canyon before the Dam	213	(10)
Acknowledgments	223	(2)
Notes	225	(30)
Suggestions for Further Reading	255	(6)
Illustration Credits	261	(2)
Index	263