How the Canyon Became Grand: A Short History
Pyne, Stephen J.
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Remainder mark. Dust Jacket is in near-fine condition, without tears or chips. Front free endpaper clipped. Previous owner's name blacked over. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Americana, West; ISBN: 0670881104. ISBN/EAN: 9780670881109. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 13008. Seller Inventory # 13008
Bibliographic Details
Title: How the Canyon Became Grand: A Short History
Publisher: Viking, NY
Publication Date: 1998
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: 1st Edition.
About this title
American explorers, who first came to the canyon's walls after the U.S. took the Southwest as the spoils of victory over Mexico, were inclined to describe it in harsh terms. As Lt. Joseph Ives remarked in a report to Congress in 1858, "The region is, of course, altogether valueless...." But 11 years later, when John Wesley Powell surveyed the length of the Colorado River, he brought to the canyon a poetic, even romantic sensibility. Through Powell and his companions, especially the geologist Clarence Dutton, the harsh landscape of the Grand Canyon would come to be regarded as "the coliseums, temples, and statuary of an inspired nature."
"The Canyon claims standing," Pyne remarks, "not because of its size or antiquity but ... by virtue of its ever-evolving ensemble and the ideas continually made available by which to interpret it." Those ideas--from men and women like Theodore Roosevelt, Wallace Stegner, Joseph Wood Krutch, Edward Abbey, and Ann Zwinger--would come to influence the national discussion on all public lands. As such, Pyne suggests, the Grand Canyon became a laboratory for the environmental movement as a whole, influential far beyond the borders of the arid Southwest--in short, as Pyne calls it, "a planetary monument." --Gregory McNamee
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