Damming Grand Canyon [electronic resource] : 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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TextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, c2007. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 289 p. :) ill., mapsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780874216653
- Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) -- Environmental conditions
- Grand Canyon (Ariz.) -- Environmental conditions
- Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) -- Description and travel
- Grand Canyon (Ariz.) -- Description and travel
- Geological Survey (U.S.) -- Biography
- Geological Survey (U.S.) -- History -- 20th century
- Water resources development -- Arizona -- Grand Canyon -- History -- 20th century
- Water-supply -- Political aspects -- Arizona -- Grand Canyon -- History -- 20th century
- Dams -- Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) -- History -- 20th century
- River surveys -- Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) -- History -- 20th century
- 917.91/320434 22
- F788 .B69 2007
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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