Displaying 1 of 1 2014 Format: Book Author: Nelson, Paul T. Title: Wrecks of human ambition : a history of Utah's Canyon Country to 1936 / Paul T. Nelson. Publisher, Date: Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, [2014] Description: xv, 304 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Subjects: Canyons -- Utah. Latter Day Saints -- Utah -- History -- 19th century. Utah -- Discovery and exploration. Utah -- History. Utah -- Description and travel. Other Title: History of Utah's Canyon Country to 1936 Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-291) and index. Contents: Introduction: linear and crooked landscapes -- Inventing Teguayo: Old World Christians and New World deserts -- Encountering Teguayo: the partial legacies of Rivera and Escalante -- Old Spanish trails and trappers' tales: the dawn of Canyon Country commerce -- United States explorers: disgust, intrigue, and making sense of an American desert -- River bottoms to mountaintops: the Canyon Country surveys of John Wesley Powell -- Good settlers and bad land: Mormon views of land and environment -- The rim of Mormondom I: missions to the eastern Canyon Country -- The rim of Mormondom II: success and failure in the western Canyon Country -- Beyond agriculture: desert gold and tourism -- Coda: modernity approaches an American desert -- Time line. LCCN: 2013042707 ISBN: 9781607813330 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1607813335 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9781607813330 : PAP 1607813335 : PAP * 9781607813347 (ebook) Other Number: 864676504 System Availability: 4 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 4 Control Number: 453225 # Local items in: 4 # System items in: 4 Call Number: 979.2 Nelson Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
