River Flowing From The Sunrise : An Environmental History of the Lower San Juan /
The authors recount twelve millennia of history along the lower San Juan River, much of it the story of mostly unsuccessful human attempts to make a living from the river's arid and fickle environment. From the Anasazi to government dam builders, from Navajo to Mormon herders and farmers, from...
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| Language: | English |
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Logan :
Utah State University Press,
c2000.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction Twelve Millennia on the San Juan; I Prehistory: From Clovis Hunters to Corn Farmers; II Navajos, Paiutes, and Utes: Views of a Sacred Land; III Exploration and Science: Defining Terra Incognita; IV Livestock: Cows, Feed, and Floods; V Agriculture: Ditches, Droughts, and Disasters; VI City Building: Farming the Triad; VII Mining: Black and Yellow Gold in Redrock Country; VIII The Federal Government: Dams, Tamarisk, and Pikeminnows; IX San Juan of the Imagination: Local and National Values
- EPILOGUE Visions: Flowing from the Sunrise or a Water Spigot?Notes; Bibliography; Index