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A Zion Canyon reader / edited by Nathan N. Waite and Reid L. Neilson ; foreword by Lyman Hafen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hafen, Lyman, author of introduction, etc.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Zion National Park (Utah)--Description and travel.
- Zion National Park (Utah)--History.
- Zion National Park (Utah).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (248 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Salt Lake City, [Utah] : The University of Utah Press : Published in partnership with the Zion Natural History Association, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Featured in National Geographic 's "Five National Parks You Should Visit in Utah" Published in Partnership with Zion Natural History Association. Zion National Park is one of the country's most-visited and best-loved national parks.For the first time, lovers of the park have in one volume the best that has been written about the canyon.
- Contents:
- ""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""; ""Sources and Permissions""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-60781-348-3
- OCLC:
- 903957530
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