Suggested Readings

Reference article from September/October 2001 Humanities Magazine:

Watershed Seven States Look at the Legacy of the Colorado
By Paulette W. Campbell

 
Suggested Reading List:
 
Abbey, Edward. Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968.

Abbey, Edward. The Monkey Wrench Gang, Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1975.

Adams, Eilean Hell or High Water: James White's Disputed Passage through Grand
Canyon, 1867_ by, Utah State University Press, Logan, Utah, 2001.

Aton, James M. and Robert S. McPherson, River Flowing from the Sunrise: An Environmental History if the Lower San Juan Utah State University Press, Logan, Utah, 2000.

August, Jack. Vision in the Desert: Carl Hayden and Hydropolitics in the American Southwest, Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1999.

Austin, Mary. The Land of Little Rain, New York: Penguin, 1988.

Bates, Sarah F., David H. Getches, Lawrence J. MacDonnell, Charles F. Wilkinson. Searching Out the Headwaters: Change and Rediscovery in Western Water Policy, Washington: Island Press, 1993.

Bowden, Charles. Blue Desert, Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1986.

Bowden, Charles. Killing the Hidden Waters, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1977.

Brown, F. Lee and Wetherford, Gary D. New Courses for the Colorado River: Major Issues for the Next Century, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986, reprinted 1991.

Cassuto, David N. Dripping Dry: Literature, Politics, and Water in the Desert Southwest, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001.

Collier, Michael. Water, Earth, and Sky: The Colorado River Basin, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1999.

DeBuys, William and and Joan Myer. Salt Dreams: Land and Water in Low-Down California, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2001.

DeVoto, Bernard. The Course of Empire, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1952.

Dimock, Brad. Sunk Without A Sound: The Tragic Colorado River Honeymoon of Glen and Bessie Hyde. Glatstaff: Fretwater Press, 2001.

Dolnick, Edward. Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell’s 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon, New York: HarperCollins, 2001.

Etulain, Richard W. Re-Imagining the Modern American West: A Century of Fiction, History, and Art, Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996.

Farmer, Jared. Glen Canyon Dammed: Inventing Lake Powell and the Canyon Country, Tucson: University of Arizona Press,1999.

Fleck, Richard F., Moving Waters: The Colorado River and the West, An Essay on the Literature of the River.

Fleck, Richard F.editor, A Colorado River Reader,Salt Lake City, Utah, University of Utah Press, 2000.

Fradkin, Philip L., A River No More:  The Colorado River and The West, Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1984.

Hundley, Jr., Norris, Dividing the Waters:  A Century of Controversy Between the United States and Mexico, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1966.

Hundley, Jr., Norris, Water and The West:  The Colorado River Compact and the Politics of Water in the American West, Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 1975.

Hundley, Jr., Norris, New Courses for the Colorado, Chapter 2, University of New Mexico Press, 1996.

Ingram, Helen M. Patterns of Politics in Water Resource Development, Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1969.

Kemmis, Daniel. This Sovereign Land, A New Vision for Governing the West, Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2001.

Leavengood, Betty. Grand Canyon Women: Lives Shaped by Landscape, Boulder: Pruett Publishing, 1999.

Leopold, Aldo. A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There. New York: Oxford University Press, 1949.

Limerick, Patricia Nelson. Desert Passages: Encounters with the American Deserts, Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1985.

Limerick, Patricia Nelson. Clyde A Milner II, and Charles E. Rankin, Trails. Toward a New Western History, Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 1991.

Malone, Michael P. and Richard W. Etulain. The American West: A Twentieth Century History, Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press, 1989.

McPhee, John, Encounters with the Archdruid. New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1971

Martin, Russell. A Story That Stands Like a Dam: Glen Canyon and the Struggle for the Soul of the West, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1999..

Nash, Roderick. The Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.

Nash, Roderick. Wilderness and the American Mind, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967, 3rd edition 1982.

Nevada Humanities Committee, editor. A River Too Far: the Past and Future of the Arid West, Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1991.

Nichols, John. The Milagro Beanfield War, New York: Ballantine Books, 1976.

Pisani, Donald J. To Reclaim a Divided West: Water Law and Public Policy, 1848-1902, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992.

Porter, Elliot. The Place No One Knew, San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1963.

Powell, John Wesley. The Exploration of the Colorado and Its Canyons. New York: Dover Publications, Inc. 1961.

Reilly, P.T. Lee’s Ferry: From Mormon Crossing to National Park, 1999.

Reisner, Marc P. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, New York: Viking, 1986.

Rothman, Hal. Preserving Different Pasts: The American National Monuments, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989.

Rusho, W.L. Lee’s Ferry: Desert River Crossing, 1998.

Ryan, Kathleen JO, Writing Down the River: Into the Heart of the Grand Canyon, Flagstaff: Northland, 1988.

Stegner, Wallace. Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1953.

Stevens, Joseph E. Hoover Dam: An American Adventure, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988.

Udall, Stewart. The Quiet Crisis, New York: Holt and Rhinehart, 1963.

Vernon, John. The Last Canyon. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001

Waters, Frank. The Colorado, New York: Rinehart & Winston, 1946.

Weatherford, Gary D. and F. Lee Brown, editors. New Courses for the COlorado: Major Issues for the Next Century, Albuquerque, New Mexico,University of New Mexico Press, 1986.

Webb, Roy. Call of the Colorado. Moscow, Idaho : University of Idaho Press, 1994.

Webb, Roy.If we had a boat : Green River Explorers, Adventurers, and Runners. Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, 1986.

Webb, Roy.Riverman : the story of Bus Hatch. Rock Springs, Wyoming : Labyrinth Pub., 1989.

Richard Westwood.Rough-Water Man : Elwyn Blake's Colorado River Expeditions; foreword by Bruce Babbitt.
Reno : University of Nevada Press, 1992.

Richard Westwood.Woman of the River : Georgie White Clark, White Water Pioneer; foreword by Roy Webb.
Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 1997.

Wiley, Peter and Robert Gottlieb.Empires in the Sun: The Rises of the American West, New York: Putnam, 1982.

Wilkinson, Charles F., Crossing the Next Meridian: Land, Water, and the Future of the West. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1992.

Worster, Donald, Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Worster, Donald, Under Western Skies: Nature and History in the American West, New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Worster, Donald, A River Running West, The Life of John Wesley Powell, London, Oxford University Press, 2001.

Zwinger, Ann. Run, River, Run, New York: Harper and Row, 1975.

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