Canyon of dreams : stories from Grand Canyon history /
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Salt Lake City :
University of Utah Press,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. That's One Small Step.in the Grand Canyon: The Apollo Astronauts Hike to the Moon
- 2. On the Rim of Creation: The World's Greatest Telescope
- 3. "Looks Like a Mulhatton Story": The Origin of the Egyptian Cave Myth
- 4. Panda Tracks in the Grand Canyon: Tales of the Ancient Chinese
- 5. The Tail that Wagged the President: Or, President Harding's Dogged Secretary of the Interior
- 6. Citizen Kane-yon: William Randolph Hearst's Grand Canyon Estate
- 7. Brighty of the Grand Canyon: History Becomes Fiction, and Fiction Makes History
- 8. King of the Road: Roger Miller's Big Adventure
- 9. With God and Teddy at El Tovar: Early Tourists React to the Grand Canyon
- 10. "These Infinities of Beauty and Terror": Poets and Writers Discover the Grand Canyon
- 11. Haunted by Time: British Writers Discover the Grand Canyon
- 12. Tropic of Canyon: Henry Miller's Moment of Truth
- 13. Tall Cliffs and Tall Tales: The Origins of John Hance
- 14. The Yellow Brick Road: A Personal Reflection on History
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.