Damming Grand Canyon the 1923 USGS Colorado River expedition /
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Logan, Utah :
Utah State University Press,
c2007.
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- Water and the Colorado desert
- Where should the dams be? politics, the Colorado River Compact, and the Geological Survey's role
- Prelude to an expedition : Washington and Flagstaff
- A cumbersome journey : Flagstaff to Lee's Ferry to the Little Colorado River
- Surveys and portages : Furnace Flats through the Inner Gorge
- Of flips and floods : Bass Canyon to Diamond Creek
- Feeling their oats : Diamond Creek to Needles
- Aftermath : politics and the strident hydraulic engineer.