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Overview
Beginning above Flaming Gorge Dam in southwestern Wyoming, the Green River traverses the complete variety of terrain on the Colorado Plateau before joining the Colorado River above Cataract Canyon in southeastern Utah. Like its more famous cousin, the Colorado, the Green has captivated, capsized, and cajoled all types of characters with challenges and beauty to match its geologic variety.
In A Green River Reader editor Alan Blackstock brings this mysterious, magnificent, thrilling river to the reader with an interpretive guide that will inform both river novices and river veterans. Assembled here is every significant written testament to this "awesome ditch," from Domínguez-Escalante to Kit Carson and John C. Frémont; to contemporary American naturalists and writers including Wallace Stegner, Bernard DeVoto, David Brower, Ann Zwinger, Ellen Melloy, and Edward Abbey. Those with a story to tellthose who trapped the Green’s beavers, endured its wild rapids, were humbled by its imposing canyon walls, fought for its beautiful landscapes, or whose "pulse was hurried" by the "lofty chasms, walled in by precipices of red rock"are collected here.
If you’re headed down the Green, make sure that your dry bag or ammo can has room for just one more thing, your copy of A Green River Reader.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780874808377 |
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Publisher: | University of Utah Press |
Publication date: | 11/21/2005 |
Edition description: | 1st Edition |
Pages: | 272 |
Sales rank: | 1,165,814 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |
About the Author
Table of Contents
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction, Alan Blackstock
Beginnings: Four Streams in Search of a River,
Fray Francisco Silvestre Vélez de Escalante
The Explorations of William H. Ashley and Jedediah Smith, 1822-1829, William H. Ashley
Kit Carson's Autobiography, Kit Carson
An 1839 Wagon Train Journal, Thomas J. Farnham
Report of the Exploring Expedition to Rocky Mountains, John C. Frémont
Death Valley in '49, William Lewis Manly
Report of the Exploring Expedition from Santa Fe, New Mexico to the Junction of the Grand and Green Rivers of the Great Colorado of the West, John Strong Newberry
Uintah Not What Was Represented, Deseret News
Green River: The Gateway, Wallace Stegner
The Lost Journal, John Colton Sumner
The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, John Wesley Powell
George Y. Bradley's Journal, George Y. Bradley
A Canyon Voyage: The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition, Frederick S. Dellenbaugh
"Queen Ann" of Brown's Park, Ann Bassett Willis
Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico, Ellsworth Kolb
Now We're Safe, Now We're on the River: Bus Hatch's First Green River Voyage, Roy Webb
The Marks of Human Passage, Wallace Stegner
The Dinosaur National Monument, Earl Douglass
Shall We Let Them Ruin Our National Parks?, Bernard De Voto
Dinosaurs, Parks, and Dams, David Brower
The Battle for Echo Park, Russell Martin
The Other "Place No One Knew," Roy Webb
A Recent Year, Philip L. Fradkin
Echo Park Through Split Mountain, Ann H. Zwinger
Two-Snake Days, Ellen Meloy
Terra Incognita: Into the Maze, Edward Abbey
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