Damming Grand Canyon [electronic resource] : the 1923 USGS Colorado River expedition / Diane E. Boyer and Robert H. Webb ; U.S. Geological Survey ; foreword by Michael Collier.
Publication details: Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, c2007.Description: xiii, 289 p. : ill., mapsISBN:- 9780874216608 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0874216605 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780874216653 (e-book)
- Geological Survey (U.S.) -- History -- 20th century
- Geological Survey (U.S.) -- Biography
- River surveys -- Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) -- History -- 20th century
- Dams -- Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) -- History -- 20th century
- Water-supply -- Political aspects -- Arizona -- Grand Canyon -- History -- 20th century
- Water resources development -- Arizona -- Grand Canyon -- History -- 20th century
- Grand Canyon (Ariz.) -- Description and travel
- Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) -- Description and travel
- Grand Canyon (Ariz.) -- Environmental conditions
- Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) -- Environmental conditions
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- F788 .B69 2007eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Water and the Colorado desert -- Where should the dams be? politics, the Colorado River Compact, and the Geological Survey's role -- Prelude to an expedition : Washington and Flagstaff -- A cumbersome journey : Flagstaff to Lee's Ferry to the Little Colorado River -- Surveys and portages : Furnace Flats through the Inner Gorge -- Of flips and floods : Bass Canyon to Diamond Creek -- Feeling their oats : Diamond Creek to Needles -- Aftermath : politics and the strident hydraulic engineer.
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