A place called Grand Canyon : contested geographies / Barbara J. Morehouse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morehouse, Barbara J. (Barbara Jo), 1945-

Series:

Society, environment, and place series.

Society, environment, and place

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human geography--Arizona--Grand Canyon Region--History.

Human geography.

Land use--Arizona--Grand Canyon Region--History.

Land use.

Landscape changes--Arizona--Grand Canyon Region--History.

Landscape changes.

History.

Grand Canyon National Park (Ariz.)--History.

Grand Canyon National Park (Ariz.).

Grand Canyon Region (Ariz.)--History.

Grand Canyon Region (Ariz.).

Grand Canyon Region (Ariz.)--Environmental conditions.

Arizona--Grand Canyon Region.

Physical Description:

viii, 202 pages : map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [1996]

Summary:

For most people, "Grand Canyon" signifies that place of scenic wonder identified with Grand Canyon National Park. Beyond the boundaries of the park, however, extends the greater Grand Canyon, a region that includes five Indian reservations, numerous human settlements, and lands managed by three federal agencies and by the states of Arizona and Utah. A Place Called Grand Canyon is an unprecedented survey of how the lands and resources of the greater Grand Canyon have come to be divided in many different ways and for many different reasons. It chronicles the ebb and flow of power - changes in who controls the land and gives it meaning.

Contents:

Physical and cultural background

Westward expansion : 1870 to 1908

The National Park : 1909 to 1919

Park consolidation and expansion : 1920 to 1927

Park expansion versus a new national monument : 1927 to 1940

Frustrated expansion efforts and a new national monument : 1940 to 1969

Park and Havasupai Reservation expansion : 1970 to 1975

Subsequent and ongoing boundary issues : 1976 to 1995

Toward a (re)definition of Grand Canyon

Looking backward

and forward.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 165]-191) and index.

ISBN:

0816516030

0816516286

OCLC:

32969535