(Ebook free) Damming Grand Canyon: The 1923 USGS Colorado River Expedition
☆ Diane E Boyer, Robert H. Webb ☆
| #3722282 in Books | Utah State University Press | 2007-05-07 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.00 x6.00l,1.33 | File Name: 0874216605 | 280 pages |
||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| the exploration opening up the Colorado River as a chief water supply and popular tourist area|By Henry Berry|Diaries and letters of 10 of the 12 men in the 1923 U.S. Geological Survey to obtain detailed and useful information on the Colorado River including the Grand Canyon stretch make the "backbone" of the book. The 12 men included a variety with particular knowledge and sk||
Provides magnificent background on Colorado River water development. . . . It is also an adventure story of coping with the elements while accomplishing the complex surveying required.||W. L. Rusho, author of Lee's Ferry and Everett Reuss
In 1923, America paid close attention, via special radio broadcasts, newspaper headlines, and cover stories in popular magazines, as a government party descended the Colorado to survey Grand Canyon. Fifty years after John Wesley Powell's journey, the canyon still had an aura of mystery and extreme danger. At one point, the party was thought lost in a flood.
Something important besides adventure was going on. Led by Claude Birdseye and including colorful ch...
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