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Lee's Ferry

Author : W. L. Rusho
Publisher : Cricket Books
ISBN 13 : 9780963075703
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Lee's Ferry written by W. L. Rusho and published by Cricket Books. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LEE'S FERRY, the most historic point on the Colorado River, is the subject of this fascinating book, now revised, expanded, & updated by the authors. All river trips down the Grand Canyon begin at Lee's Ferry, & the site was critical in Colorado River explorations by Major John Wesley Powell. Lee's Ferry has served as the vital river crossing point for Mormon emigrants entering into Arizona Territory. Others who left their mark on this rugged wilderness were missionaries, promoters, miners, writers, politicians, & outlaws. Over 135 rare & unusual photographs are featured. The cover photograph is a beautiful, full-color view of Lee's Ferry, surrounded by the spectacular Vermilion Cliffs of northern Arizona. In addition to Lee's Ferry, the book also recounts the history of nearby areas. The book emphasizes human struggles in the harsh environment of this once isolated canyon wilderness. While tragedy was frequent, so also was good humor, especially evident in the writings of those who visited Lee's Ferry in its difficult early years. LEE'S FERRY - DESERT RIVER CROSSING, 180 pages, 7" x 10", paperback, retails for $14.95. It comes complete with endnotes, bibliography, & index. Customary dealer & library discounts are available. To order, contact: CRICKET PRODUCTIONS, 5299 Gurene Dr., Salt Lake City, UT 84117-7499, phone (801) 272-8905.

Lee's Ferry Desert River Crossing

Author : W. L. Rusho
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780962223365
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (233 download)

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Download or read book Lee's Ferry Desert River Crossing written by W. L. Rusho and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historic biography of frontier settlement moving wagons and families across the Colorado River in 1776 at Lee's Ferry in Marble Canyon Arizona. True-live stories of courage desperation and sometimes death of pioneers are told in gripping tales of fortitude and wonder on this remotest of landscapes in the south west.

Desert River Crossing

Author : W. L. Rusho
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Desert River Crossing written by W. L. Rusho and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Crossing the Sands

Author : Ariane Audouin-Dubreuil
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781854432223
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (322 download)

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Download or read book Crossing the Sands written by Ariane Audouin-Dubreuil and published by . This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Desert Passages

Author : Patricia Nelson Limerick
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826308085
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Desert Passages written by Patricia Nelson Limerick and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the development of American attitudes toward the desert using case studies from many writers over the years.

The Secret Knowledge of Water

Author : Craig Childs
Publisher : Back Bay Books
ISBN 13 : 0316055301
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Secret Knowledge of Water written by Craig Childs and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2008-12-14 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naturalist Craig Childs's "utterly memorable and fantastic" study of the desert's dangerous beauty is based on years of adventures in the deserts of the American West (Washington Post). Like the highest mountain peaks, deserts are environments that can be inhospitable even to the most seasoned explorers. Craig Childs, who has spent years in the deserts of the American West as an adventurer, a river guide, and a field instructor in natural history, has developed a keen appreciation for these forbidding landscapes: their beauty, their wonder, and especially their paradoxes. His extraordinary treks through arid lands in search of water are an astonishing revelation of the natural world at its most extreme. "Utterly memorable and fantastic...Certainly no reader will ever see the desert in the same way again." —Suzannah Lessard, Washington Post

Desert Cities

Author : Michael F. Logan
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822971100
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Desert Cities written by Michael F. Logan and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2012-01-12 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phoenix is known as the "Valley of the Sun," while Tucson is referred to as "The Old Pueblo." These nicknames epitomize the difference in the public's perception of each city. Phoenix continues to sprawl as one of America's largest and fastest-growing cities. Tucson has witnessed a slower rate of growth, and has only one quarter of Phoenix's population. This was not always the case. Prior to 1920, Tucson had a larger population. How did two cities, with such close physical proximity and similar natural environments develop so differently?Desert Cities examines the environmental circumstances that led to the starkly divergent growth of these two cities. Michael Logan traces this significant imbalance to two main factors: water resources and cultural differences. Both cities began as agricultural communities. Phoenix had the advantage of a larger water supply, the Salt River, which has four and one half times the volume of Tucson's Santa Cruz River. Because Phoenix had a larger river, it received federal assistance in the early twentieth century for the Salt River project, which provided water storage facilities. Tucson received no federal aid. Moreover, a significant cultural difference existed. Tucson, though it became a U.S. possession in 1853, always had a sizable Hispanic population. Phoenix was settled in the 1870s by Anglo pioneers who brought their visions of landscape development and commerce with them.By examining the factors of watershed, culture, ethnicity, terrain, political favoritism, economic development, and history, Desert Cities offers a comprehensive evaluation that illuminates the causes of growth disparity in two major southwestern cities and provides a model for the study of bi-city resource competition.

Desert Crossing

Author : Luke Short
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504039815
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Desert Crossing written by Luke Short and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A freight captain races across the desert to protect priceless cargo in this rollicking adventure from a master storyteller of the West. The guns come down the Colorado River, cases of army rifles that could mean life or death for the soldiers fighting the Indian Wars throughout the American West, and Dave Harmon is waiting for them. A grizzled, one-eyed freight captain, Harmon knows better than anyone how to drive cargo over the broad, merciless desert. The rifles could attract Apache, bandits, or worse, but none of that frightens him. The real trouble is one of the passengers: a major’s beautiful daughter he’s not sure he can trust. Soon Harmon is fighting off not only ruthless outlaws and Apache determined to defend their land, but backstabbing members of his own wagon train. In order to reach Fort Whipple with the guns and the girl, he’ll have to take on his enemies singlehandedly—and destroy them all. Desert Crossing is a thrilling chase story featuring vibrant characters and rich, authentic western atmosphere from legendary author Luke Short.

The Books of the Grand Canyon, the Colorado River, the Green River & the Colorado Plateau

Author : Mike S. Ford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781892327109
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (271 download)

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Download or read book The Books of the Grand Canyon, the Colorado River, the Green River & the Colorado Plateau written by Mike S. Ford and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Bibliography covering one half century of Southwest literature; a sequel to Farquhar's "The Books of the Colorado River & the Grand Canyon."

Pilgrims in the Desert

Author : Le Hayes
Publisher : Mojave Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780918614162
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (141 download)

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Download or read book Pilgrims in the Desert written by Le Hayes and published by Mojave Historical Society. This book was released on 2005 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Lands of Cazembe

Author : Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Lands of Cazembe written by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journals of the expeditions.

Lee's Ferry

Author : Evelyn Brack Measeles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Lee's Ferry written by Evelyn Brack Measeles and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the river crossing used by Mormons, miners, and the military during the westward push through Arizona and Utah.

The Lands of Cazembe

Author : Francisco José María de Lacerda e Almeida
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Lands of Cazembe written by Francisco José María de Lacerda e Almeida and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Railroad Gazette

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 982 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Railroad Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Where the Water Goes

Author : David Owen
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698189906
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book Where the Water Goes written by David Owen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Wonderfully written…Mr. Owen writes about water, but in these polarized times the lessons he shares spill into other arenas. The world of water rights and wrongs along the Colorado River offers hope for other problems.” —Wall Street Journal An eye-opening account of where our water comes from and where it all goes. The Colorado River is an essential resource for a surprisingly large part of the United States, and every gallon that flows down it is owned or claimed by someone. David Owen traces all that water from the Colorado’s headwaters to its parched terminus, once a verdant wetland but now a million-acre desert. He takes readers on an adventure downriver, along a labyrinth of waterways, reservoirs, power plants, farms, fracking sites, ghost towns, and RV parks, to the spot near the U.S.–Mexico border where the river runs dry. Water problems in the western United States can seem tantalizingly easy to solve: just turn off the fountains at the Bellagio, stop selling hay to China, ban golf, cut down the almond trees, and kill all the lawyers. But a closer look reveals a vast man-made ecosystem that is far more complex and more interesting than the headlines let on. The story Owen tells in Where the Water Goes is crucial to our future: how a patchwork of engineering marvels, byzantine legal agreements, aging infrastructure, and neighborly cooperation enables life to flourish in the desert—and the disastrous consequences we face when any part of this tenuous system fails.

The Southwest

Author : David Lavender
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826307361
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Southwest written by David Lavender and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical and cultural overview, including discussions of present-day racial, conservation, and economic problems.

Canyon

Author : Michael P. Ghiglieri
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816536635
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Canyon written by Michael P. Ghiglieri and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fasten your life jackets for a ride you'll never forget. Now the excitement of a raft trip through the Grand Canyon has been re-created by a seasoned whitewater guide with a passion to share one of the world's most fantastic journeys. Michael Ghiglieri, a professional river guide for more than 17 years, has written the first book to describe that trip from the modern boatman's point of view. From Lee's Ferry to Diamond Creek, Ghiglieri leads you down 226 miles of wild river and through some of the most breathtaking scenery on earth. Along the way, he navigates the Colorado River's dozens of notorious rapids—many of which drop fifteen feet or more—and shares the excitement of waves and boulders, thunder and foam. Recounting a real journey through this geological wonder, Canyon interweaves heart-pounding adventure with factual insights into the world of Grand Canyon. Between the rapids, Ghiglieri relates tales of river runners past and present, lessons in geology and wildlife, observations on the impact of Glen Canyon Dam, and stories of Native inhabitants, from Anasazi ancestors to Havasupai Rastafarians. This trip also offers more than its share of human drama for the passengers aboard, leaving them with tales of their own to tell. "Running the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon is to me the most impressive journey on our planet," writes Ghiglieri, "an adventure that leaves no traveler unchanged." For anyone who has ever shared or contemplated that adventure, Canyon recreates an unforgettable ride.