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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460628203321

Titolo

A Zion Canyon reader / / edited by Nathan N. Waite and Reid L. Neilson ; foreword by Lyman Hafen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Salt Lake City, [Utah] : , : The University of Utah Press : , : Published in partnership with the Zion Natural History Association, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-60781-348-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Disciplina

979.2/48

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Zion National Park (Utah) Description and travel

Zion National Park (Utah) History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Figures""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Part 1: The Land and Its Earliest Inhabitants""; ""1. Water and the Geology of Zion National Park""; ""2. Flora and Fauna""; ""3. Zion's Story""; ""4. Origin of the Pai-Utes""; ""5. From the Beginning""; ""6. The Land Nobody Wanted . . .""; ""Part 2: Euro-American Explorers""; ""7. An Overland Trip to the Grand Cañon""; ""8. The Vermilion Cliffs, and Valley of the Virgen""; ""9. A New Valley of Wonders""; ""Part 3: From Remote Outpost to Vacation Destination""; ""10. Journal, July 5-11, 1914""

""11. The Canyon Sublime""""12. Zion Canyon""; ""13. Zion Canyon and the Colob Plateau""; ""14. Zion National Park with Some Reminiscences Fifty Years Later""; ""15. All Aboard for Zion""; ""16. The Great White Throne""; ""17. Letters""; ""18. Amid the Mighty Walls of Zion""; ""Part 4: Human Constructions""; ""19. Story of Zion Cable""; ""20. Zion Park Lodge""; ""21. The Zion Tunnel""; ""22. Polemic""; ""23. Zion Park, Town Clashover Development""; ""Part 5: Senses of Place""; ""24. The Land That God Forgot""; ""25. Rough Hike through the Wrong Canyon""; ""26. Canyons, Colours, and Birds""

""27. The Spirit of Kinesava""""28. Kolob Backcountry""; ""29. Zion Pioneers and Spirituality in the Land of Zion""; ""Further Reading"";



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