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.
Boyer, Diane E.; Webb, Robert H.; Geological Survey (U.S.)
2007
F788 .B69 2007eb
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Title 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.
Author Boyer, Diane E.
ISBN 9780874216608 (cloth : alk. paper)
0874216605 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780874216653 (e-book)
Imprint Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, c2007.
Language English
Description xiii, 289 p. : ill., maps.
Call Number F788 .B69 2007eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 917.91/320434
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Added Author Webb, Robert H.
Added Corporate Author Geological Survey (U.S.)
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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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