Journeys in the Canyon Lands of Utah and Arizona, 1914-1916
George Corning Fraser, who lived in the days before automobile travel became a way of life, was an easterner who loved to vacation on horseback in the American Southwest. No mere tourist, he sought out the most remote and forbidding landscapes he could find: the seldom-visited country north of the Grand Canyon, the vast slickrock expanses of the Navajo Reservation, and sites such as Zion Canyon and Capitol Reef before they became national parks. An amateur geologist, Fraser stood at the same panoramic viewpoints used by Major John Wesley Powell to make the first maps of the Plateau Province. As he penned his own memorable observations of the…
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Weitere Autoren: Rothman, Hal K. (Solist) / Swanson, Frederick H. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8165-2440-2
- EAN: 9780816524402
- Produktnummer: 1726573
- Verlag: Univ Of Arizona Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 264 S.
- Masse: H24.0 cm x B16.0 cm x D1.6 cm 381 g
- Auflage: New
- Gewicht: 381
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