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

A Zion Canyon reader /edited by Nathan N. Waite and Reid L. Neilson ; foreword by Lyman Hafen. - Salt Lake City [Utah] : The University of Utah Press : (c)2014. Published in partnership with the Zion Natural History Association, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (267 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references.

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 CaƱon; 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 Later15. 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; Sources and Permissions



9781607813484


Zion National Park (Utah).


Electronic Books.

F832 / .Z566 2014