Introduction / Alan Blackstock -- Beginnings : Four Streams In Search Of A River / Philip L. Fradkin -- The Domínquez-escalante Journal / 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 The 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. Edited By Alan Blackstock. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 259-260).

Blackstock, Alan, 1956-

United States, United States of America

Salt Lake City, Utah, 2005

vii, 263 p. : 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-260)
Introduction / Alan Blackstock -- Beginnings : four streams in search of a river / Philip L. Fradkin -- The Domínquez-Escalante journal / 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 the 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

"There is something ominous about a swift river, and something thrilling about a river of any kind."from Beyond the Hundredth Meridian by Wallace Stegner 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 Domnguez-Escalante to Kit Carson and John C. Frmont; 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 Greens 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 youre 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 .

2024-08-23