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 natures indiscriminate universe, discovers her identity.

A collection of personal reflections as well as a tribute to the unifying power of landscapeby 15 of today's best women writers who descended into the heart of the Grand Canyon on the Colorado River.

On t.p.: . . . and with special reference to the voyages of Powell . . .

Drawing on rarely examined diaries and journals, Down the Great Unknown is the first book to tell the full, dramatic story of the Powell expedition.

On May 24, 1869 a one-armed Civil War veteran, John Wesley Powell and a ragtag band of nine mountain men embarked on the last great quest in the American West. The Grand Canyon, not explored before, was as mysterious as Atlantis—and as perilous. The ten

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"When Sara Schaefer is in first grade, her father warns her to always tell the truth because one lie leads to another and soon you will find yourself in a hole you can't escape. A few years later, the Schaefer family is completely upended when it's revealed that their grand life is based on a lie. Her parents become pariahs in their upper middle class community and go from non-religious people to devout church members. The idea of good and evil as...

Ellsworth and Emery Kolb, renowned photographers of the Colorado Plateau, voyaged down the Green, Yampa, and Colorado rivers for the first of many times in the fall and winter of 1911-12. This report of that journey paints a vivid picture of the natural history of the Colorado drainage system, along with an intriguing description of human life in that wild country in the days before paved roads and commercial river excursions. Long regarded as a classic...

It's one thing to read Colorado River history, but another thing entirely to read Colorado River history written by someone who was not only in the middle of it, but made a significant portion of that history himself. Gaylord Staveley recounts all of the significant early expeditions down the Colorado, then goes beyond that to describe, in captivating detail, his own experiences as a commercial outfitter in the Grand Canyon during the transitional...

"The riveting tale of two pioneering botanists and their historic boat trip down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon. In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious and entrepreneurial expedition leader, a zoologist, and two amateur boatmen. With its churning waters and treacherous boulders, the Colorado was famed as the most dangerous river in the world. Journalists...