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.

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,...

A collection of 17 new essays by the well known writer on the American southwest. The title essay reflects on his 1962 raft trip through Glen Canyon just before it was flooded by a dam. Others discuss eccentric desert dwellers, a stay at a wigwam hotel, astronomers' attempts to keep western cities dark, and other peculiarities of the region.

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...

Three old friends have long shared a memory of their float trip through Glen Canyon. They want nothing more than to see the free flowing river restored, and they are willing to risk their comfortable and secure lives to do so. But to bring back the beautiful canyon and its 186 miles of the Colorado River they must deal with the colossal dam that has impounded Powell Reservoir since 1963. Somehow the river will have to be diverted around the ten million...

"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...

After decades of drought, the American West is stretched to the breaking point. A changing climate and design flaws in the Glen Canyon Dam have pushed the once-massive Lake Powell reservoir to the brink of collapse—putting at risk millions of people who depend on the Colorado River for water, agriculture, and electricity. Now, as Glen Canyon reemerges, its surprising ecological rebirth reminds us that nature’s capacity to heal may well outpace...