How The Canyon Became Grand
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Author | : Stephen J. Pyne |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 1999-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1101177586 |
Dismissed by the first Spanish explorers as a wasteland, the Grand Canyon lay virtually unnoticed for three centuries until nineteenth- century America rediscovered it and seized it as a national emblem. This extraordinary work of intellectual and environmental history tells two tales of the Canyon: the discovery and exploration of the physical Canyon and the invention and evolution of the cultural Canyon--how we learned to endow it with mythic significance.Acclaimed historian Stephen Pyne examines the major shifts in Western attitudes toward nature, and recounts the achievements of explorers, geologists, artists, and writers, from John Wesley Powell to Wallace Stegner, and how they transformed the Canyon into a fixture of national identity. This groundbreaking book takes us on a completely original journey through the Canyon toward a new understanding of its niche in the American psyche, a journey that mirrors the making of the nation itself.
Author | : Jim O'Connor |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2015-02-05 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0448483572 |
There are canyons all over the planet, and the Grand Canyon in Arizona is not the biggest. Yet because of the spectacular colors in the rock layers and fascinating formations of boulders, buttes, and mesas, it is known as one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World. Starting with a brief overview of how national parks came into being, this book covers all aspects of the canyon--how it formed, which early native people lived there, and what varied wildlife can be found there now. A history of the canyon's end-to-end exploration in the late 1860s and how the Grand Canyon became such a popular vacation spot (5 million tourists visit every year) round out this informative, easy-to-read account.
Author | : Ellsworth Leonardson Kolb |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mark Neumann |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 373 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9780816627851 |
Weaving history, ethnography, and documentary photography, the author describes how the Grand Canyon became an internationally renowned tourist attraction and cultural icon. 58 photos.
Author | : Lance Newman |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2011-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520270789 |
Presents an anthology of stories, essays, and poems that looks at the Grand Canyon.
Author | : Colin Fletcher |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2014-10-15 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0804152446 |
The remarkable classic of nature writing by the first man ever to have walked the entire length of the Grand Canyon.
Author | : Betty Leavengood |
Publisher | : Grand Canyon Association |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780938216780 |
Grand Canyon Women tells the humorous and heartbreaking stories of twenty-six remarkable women--Native Americans, river runners, scientists, wranglers, architects, rangers, hikers, and housewives--each of whom, in the midst of nature's indiscriminate universe, discovers her identity.
Author | : Lonnie Bedwell |
Publisher | : Pro Player Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Blind athletes |
ISBN | : 9780981471099 |
Lonnie Bedwell (U.S. Navy, retired) shares his incredible and inspiring true story of becoming the first blind person to navigate a kayak through 226 miles of dangerous whitewater river flowing through the Grand Canyon. Bedwell embarked on this brave and historic undertaking to raise public awareness of the plight of disabled veterans, and to show these veterans, many of whom suffer from clinical depression, what they could achieve by taking advantage of adaptive sports programs like those offered by volunteer vets organization Team River Runner. Lonnie has been helping inspire a lot of his fellow veterans with his exploits and, whenever someone asks him if it makes him feel good to help them, his reply is always the same: Those veterans did (me) and all of us a favor by fighting for us and (I'm) just paying them back. -Richard Seppala, The R.O.I. Guy Bedwell's story includes insightful comments and recollections from his family, other veterans, and the men who helped him prepare and complete his remarkable journey. Bedwell's amazing accomplishment is a testament to the limitless scope of the human spirit and our ability to overcome life's most daunting obstacles. You can learn a lot from Lonnie. I did. I learned so much from him that by the end of our time together in the Grand Canyon, I realized that the trip was really as much about Lonnie guiding me as it was about me guiding Lonnie. Alex Nielson, Lead River Guide
Author | : Wayne Ranney |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Carving Grand Canyon provides a synopsis of the intriguing ideas and innovative theories that geologists have developed over time. This story of a fascinating landscape is told in an engaging style that nonscientists will find inviting. The story's end, however, remains a mystery yet to be solved.
Author | : Thomas Alan Ratz |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738578569 |
Arizona is proud to have one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World--the Grand Canyon. With the arrival of the Santa Fe and Union Pacific Railroad in the early 20th century, the development of the canyon began in earnest. The railroads, along with the Santa Fe's business partner, the Fred Harvey Company, greatly promoted the Grand Canyon as a tourist destination through books, pamphlets, and magazine advertisements. On February 26, 1919, Congress established the Grand Canyon National Park, and the federal government became a promoter of the Grand Canyon, too. But perhaps the best promoters of the Grand Canyon were the people who wrote home on picture postcards telling their friends and families about the amazing canyon. A number of the postcards published about the park can be found within the pages of this book.