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Author
Publisher
Bower House
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xii, 260 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"All My Rivers Are Gone celebrates a great American landscape, mourns its loss, and challenges us to undo the damage and forever prevent such mindless destruction in the future"
Publisher
Katydid Books and Music
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (30 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Item intersperses narrative and songs by Katie Lee with 140 color photographs of Glen Canyon before the dam and Lake Powell. Also included are some "before and after" pictures of selected sites before and during the filling of the reservoir. Almost all songs and photographs on this DVD are by Katie Lee.
Publisher
Inskip Ink
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
95 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Historic Photo Journal, 1872 to 1964 of Glen Canyon of the Colorado River, Utah and Arizona. This beautiful canyon was drowned by the building of Glen Canyon Dam, January, 1963. This book takes us back in time to visit the canyon as if we were on the river with photos and quotations from more than 50 different contributors. It also includes a map of Lake Powell Reservoir marked as a guide for today's visitors to compare Lake Powell of today with the...
Author
Publisher
Bonneville Books
Pub. Date
℗♭2009
Physical Desc
xv, 150 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm.
Language
English
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Description
"Author Gregory Crampton led the historical investigations of Glen and San Juan canyons from 1957 to 1963 under contract with the National Park Service. The objective was to locate and record historical sites that would be lost to the rising waters of the reservoir. This book records that effort." "First published in 1986, this edition has been revised to include several new "ghosts" of Glen Canyon and features a never-before-published foreword by...
Author
Publisher
Freewater Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
xii, 276 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1963, the Colorado River was dammed at Glen Canyon, creating Lake Powell while flooding a great natural wonder. Like thousands of environmentalists, Lee would like to see Lake Powell drained and Glen Canyon restored. She writes poetically and soulfully of her years as a river runner in the 1950s and of the beauty, solitude, and excitement of a wild place visited by very few. As a folksinger and Hollywood performer in the late 1950s and early 1960s,...
Author
Publisher
Radius Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
viii, 20 unnumbered pages, 163 pages : color illustrations, color facsimile, 3 maps (2 color) ; 35 cm.
Language
English
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Description
In 1963 the waters began rising behind Glen Canyon Dam and 170 miles of the Colorado River slowly disappeared. Environmentalists considered it a disaster and mourned Glen Canyon as gone forever. The Sierra Club joined forces with photographer Eliot Porter to document what would be lost under the dam's waters. But in an unexpected victory that speaks to the pervasive disaster of climate change, the reservoir is now declining and the Colorado River...
Author
Publisher
Braided River with support from the Glen Canyon Institute
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
174 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 26 x 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
A celebration of Glen Canyon, a call to protect a place reemerging Writer Annette McGivney explores the controversy and the history of water politics in the American Southwest through the lens of the re-emergence of Glen Canyon due to an ongoing drought. More than 125 large images by photographer James Kay capture the beauty of the legendary canyons of Glen Canyon as they emerge into the light of day for the first time in nearly 40 years. Each chapter...
Author
Publisher
University of Utah Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xix, 424 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Archaeologist Don D. Fowler shares the history of a place and the peoples who sojourned there over the course of several thousand years. To tell this story, he weaves his personal experience as a student working on the Glen Canyon Salvage Project with accounts of early explorers, geologists, miners, railroad developers, settlers, river runners, and others who entered this magical place. The book details the canyon’s story via historical and scientific...
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