It Happened at Grand Canyon - $8.94 - Berger, Todd R. - 9780762738397

It Happened at Grand Canyon
Berger, Todd R.
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BOOK SUMMARY
The Grand Canyon is an American icon, a scenic wonder like no other. From the several Native American tribes who have called Grand Canyon home to swashbuckling pioneers to an airliner collision over the canyon that led to the formation of the FAA, It Happ

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BOOK SYNOPSIS
The Grand Canyon is an American icon, a scenic wonder like no other. From the several Native American tribes who have called Grand Canyon home to swashbuckling pioneers to an airliner collision over the canyon that led to the formation of the FAA, It Happened at Grand Canyon tells the history of this colossal, magnificent place.

BOOK EXCERPTS
"The whole gorge for miles lay beneath us and it was by far the most awfully grand and impressive scene I have ever yet seen."
--Thomas Moran, in a letter to his wife, August 13, 1873

By the time landscape artist Thomas Moran first looked out over the Grand Canyon from the North Rim at Toroweap in August 1873, he was already famous for his paintings and drawings of the American West. In 1870 Scribner's Monthly commissioned the 33-year-old Moran to illustrate an article about Yellowstone, and the versatile artist created ink wash illustrations based on crude drawings of the wonders of Yellowstone sketched by two members of an expedition to the future national park in the summer of that year. The illustrations were published in the May and June 1871 issues of the magazine along with the two-part article by Thomas Langford.
Buoyed by the publication of his Yellowstone sketches and armed with a recommendation from Jay Cooke, a Philadelphia banker and agent for the Northern Pacific Railroad, Moran talked his way onto the expedition of Dr. Ferdinand V. Hayden to Yellowstone in the summer of 1871. Relying on photographs taken by William Henry Jackson and his own sketches and watercolors made during the trip, Moran completed a seven-foot by twelve-foot oil painting, Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, which the government purchased in 1872 for the then-momentous sum of $10,000 and hung it in the U.S. Capitol. Earlier that year, Congress had created Yellowstone National Park; congressional supporters of the Yellowstone bill had been heavily influenced by Moran's illustrations in Scribner's, as well as the sketches and watercolors he brought back from Wyoming after the Hayden expedition.
But when the famous explorer of the Southwest Major John Wesley Powell requested Moran's services for a trip to the Grand Canyon in 1872, the busy artist turned the major down: he had too many Yellowstone commissions to take time off that summer. A year later, after the artist had completed his work, he finally joined a new Powell expedition into the canyons of southwestern Utah Territory and on to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.
Major Powell's theories on the formation of the Grand Canyon heavily influenced Moran. In 1875 the Government Printing Office published Powell's Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and Its Tributaries, including numerous illustrations by Moran. In that book Powell described the formation of the pinnacles and buttes of the inner canyon: "No human hand has placed a block in all those wonderful structures. The rain drops of unreckoned ages have cut them all from solid rock." Today, the effects of erosion on the formation of the canyon are widely known, but in 1875 many viewed Powell's ideas as radical. Regardless, Powell heavily influenced Moran, and the artist incorporated his idealized version of the role of falling water in the creation of the canyon in his equally large companion painting to the Yellowstone piece, The Chasm of the Colorado, completed in 1874.

BACK COVER
From the vanished explorers of the 1869 Powell expedition to the airlifting of 580 feral burros, It Happened at Grand Canyon offers a unique look at intriguing people and episodes from the history of the colossal and colorful gorge carved by the Colorado River.

Learn about the disputed first trip through the Grand Canyonsupposedly by James White on a driftwood raft. Find out how an airliner collision over the canyon led to the formation of the FAA. And meet honeymooners Bessie and Glen Hyde, whose disappearance in the canyon has remained a mystery for nearly ninety years.

In an easy-to-read style thats entertaining and informative, author Todd R. Berger recounts some of the Grand Canyons most captivating moments.

AUTHOR BIO
Todd R. Berger is the managing editor of the Grand Canyon Association and a freelance writer, editor, and photographer based at Grand Canyon National Park. He is the coauthor of Insiders' Guide® to Grand Canyon and Northern Arizona, and his work regularly leads him into the canyon for research, photography, and inspiration.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction; 6 Million Years Ago (or Longer): A Grand Canyon Forms; Pre-History: Before Boundaries Were an Issue(Hopi/Havasupai/Hualapai/Paiute/Navajo connections to canyon); 1540-42: The Explorations of Francisco Vásquez de Coronado; 1776: Franciscan Fathers Stopped by the Canyon; 1867: First Through Grand Canyon; 1869: John Wesley Powell; 1873: The Chasm of the Colorado; 1883: Tall Tales and Mules; 1889-90: A Railroad through Grand Canyon; 1898: The Bright Angel Trail Is Mine!; 1901: Tracks to the Edge: The Arrival of the Grand Canyon Railroad; 1905: The Home of Big Jim (Yav ñmig gswedva); 1911-12: The Kolb Brothers' Motion-Picture Extravaganza!; 1914: Designing a National Park; 1919: A Long Time Coming; 1924: A Grand, yet Half-Brained, Plan: The Kaibab Deer Drive; 1925: A Trail to the Bottom engineering feats of its time.; 1928: Without a Trace; 1931: A Grand Canyon Suite; 1933: The Boys of the CCC at the Bottom of the Grand Canyon; 1934: Cool. What Are They?; 1945: Georgie White; 1951: The Grand Canyon Enters the Atomic Age; 1953: Brighty of the Grand Canyon; 1955: An Easter Sunday Swim; 1956: The Fallen; 1956-68: Dam the Colorado!; 1966: The Hundred-Year Flood; 1975: More Land for All; 1994: The Return of the California Condor

MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0762738391
ISBN(13-digit): 9780762738397
Dewey Decimal: 979.1/32
Library of Congress: 2006021191
Book Publisher: Globe Pequot Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 193

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