Introduction: linear and crooked landscapes
Inventing Teguayo: Old World Christians and New World deserts
Encountering Teguayo: the partial legacies of Rivera and Escalante
Old Spanish trails and trappers' tales: the dawn of Canyon Country commerce
United States explorers: disgust, intrigue, and making sense of an American desert
River bottoms to mountaintops: the Canyon Country surveys of John Wesley Powell
Good settlers and bad land: Mormon views of land and environment
The rim of Mormondom I: missions to the eastern Canyon Country
The rim of Mormondom II: success and failure in the western Canyon Country
Beyond agriculture: desert gold and tourism
Coda: modernity approaches an American desert
