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Rough-Water Man: Elwyn Blake'S Colorado River Expeditions
Richard E. Westwood
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Description for Rough-Water Man: Elwyn Blake'S Colorado River Expeditions
Paperback. Exploring the Colorado, Green, and San Juan River canyons in the 1920s" Num Pages: 259 pages, black & white illustrations, maps, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; HBJK; PDX; RNKH; WNC; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
The passage of the 1902 Reclamation Act created a mandate for the federal government to build dams on the Colorado River and its powerful tributaries. By 1920 the US Geological Survey had surveyed the river’s main courses, but still needed accurate charts of the last stretches of deep canyons and white-water rapids, accessible only by boat.
Rough-Water Man is the first detailed account of these mapping expeditions by the USGS--the San Juan Canyon in 1921, the upper Green River in 1922, and the Grand Canyon in 1923. Illustrated throughout with period photographs, it is also the personal story ... Read more
The passage of the 1902 Reclamation Act created a mandate for the federal government to build dams on the Colorado River and its powerful tributaries. By 1920 the US Geological Survey had surveyed the river’s main courses, but still needed accurate charts of the last stretches of deep canyons and white-water rapids, accessible only by boat.
Rough-Water Man is the first detailed account of these mapping expeditions by the USGS--the San Juan Canyon in 1921, the upper Green River in 1922, and the Grand Canyon in 1923. Illustrated throughout with period photographs, it is also the personal story ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
282
Place of Publication
Reno, United States
ISBN
9780874179149
SKU
V9780874179149
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About Richard E. Westwood
Richard Westwood is the nephew of Henry Elwyn Blake. He is the coauthor of Neil Westwood: A Biography and author of Chompin' at the Bit, a story about growing up in Moab, Utah.
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