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Damming Grand Canyon the 1923 USGS Colorado River expedition / by Boyer, Diane E.

Table of Contents: “…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.…”
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Damming Grand Canyon The 1923 USGS Colorado River Expedition / by Boyer, Diane E.

Table of Contents: “…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.…”
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Damming Grand Canyon : The 1923 USGS Colorado River Expedition / by Boyer, Diane E.

Table of Contents: “…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.…”
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Damming Grand Canyon : The 1923 USGS Colorado River Expedition / by Boyer, Diane E.

Table of Contents: “…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.…”
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Lost canyons of the Green River the story before Flaming Gorge Dam / by Webb, Roy

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A symbol of wilderness Echo Park and the American conservation movement / by Harvey, Mark W. T. (Mark William Thornton)

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Exploring the Brazos River from beginning to end / by Kimmel, Jim, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Water runs downhill -- The Brazos as an ecological system -- The lost river -- Many arms of God -- John Graves's dammed river -- The (almost) free Brazos -- The evolving Brazos -- Appendix: Plant and animal species of the Brazos River.…”
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Westwater Lost and Found by Milligan, Mike, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…First touched by man : beginnings -- Westwater town : a trip in time -- Gunslingers and bad guys -- Cattle versus sheep -- Rocks, dams, and hideouts : entering the canyon -- The river runners : entering the gorge -- Skull Rapid -- The Memorial.…”
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Westwater Lost and Found / by Milligan, Mike, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…First touched by man : beginnings -- Westwater town : a trip in time -- Gunslingers and bad guys -- Cattle versus sheep -- Rocks, dams, and hideouts : entering the canyon -- The river runners : entering the gorge -- Skull Rapid -- The Memorial.…”
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Westwater Lost and Found / by Milligan, Mike, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…First touched by man : beginnings -- Westwater town : a trip in time -- Gunslingers and bad guys -- Cattle versus sheep -- Rocks, dams, and hideouts : entering the canyon -- The river runners : entering the gorge -- Skull Rapid -- The Memorial.…”
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Where roads will never reach : wilderness and its visionaries in the Northern Rockies / by Swanson, Frederick H. (Frederick Harold), 1952-

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Winding through time the forgotten history and present-day peril of Bayou Manchac / by Sternberg, Mary Ann

Table of Contents: “…-- Exploring the bayou -- Community development, then and now -- Iberville discovers the bayou -- The bayou has a split personality -- Colonial development begins with the French -- An international boundary -- The British settle the Manchac-- -- And the Spanish settle the Manchac -- What the Louisiana Purchase meant -- When Andrew Jackson dammed the bayou -- The bayou in the nineteenth century -- The biggest little village on the bayou -- When the woodmen came -- Prehistory redux -- A quiet stream and modern development -- Spirit of place -- Contemporary struggles-- and possibilities -- Where are the rose-colored glasses?…”
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The true history of the conquest of New Spain. by Díaz del Castillo, Bernal, 1496-1584

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The Maya world /

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Cultural heritage management and indigenous people in the north of Colombia : back to the ancestor's landscape / by Londoño, Wilhelm

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The ancient Andean states : political landscapes in pre-hispanic Peru / by Tantaleán, Henry, 1974-

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Amerindian socio-cosmologies between the Andes, Amazonia and Mesoamerica : toward an anthropological understanding of the Isthmo-Colombian Area /

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