The Grand Canyon reader

This superb anthology brings together some of the most powerful and compelling writing about the Grand Canyon--stories, essays, and poems written across five centuries by people inhabiting, surviving, and attempting to understand what one explorer called the "Great Unknown." The Grand Canyon Reader includes traditional stories from native tribes, reports by explorers, journals by early tourists, and contemporary essays and stories by such beloved writers as John McPhee, Ann Zwinger, Edward Abbey, Terry Tempest Williams, Barry Lopez, Linda Hogan, and Craig Childs. Lively tales written by unschoo

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Grand Canyon / Amil Quayle -- Fear of God / Craig Childs -- Bright Angel Trail / Ann Zwinger -- Havasu / Edward Abbey -- The man who walked through time / Colin Fletcher -- Where solitude is easy to find / Joseph Wood Krutch -- A cougar hunt on the rim of the Grand Canyon / Theodore Roosevelt -- The Grand Cañon of the Colorado / John Muir -- The Grand Canyon of the Colorado / Harriet Monroe -- The song of the Colorado / Sharlot Hall -- Canyon solitude / Patricia McCairen -- Stone Creek Woman / Terry Tempest Williams -- Gone back into the earth / Barry Lopez -- A river / John McPhee -- Lava falls / Bill Beer -- Boys and an old man / Bert Loper -- The log of the panthon / George Flavell -- The Grand Cañon of the Colorado / John Wesley Powell -- Grand Canyon National Park / Michael Kabotie -- Plant journey / Linda Hogan -- Packhorse paradise / Wallace Stegner -- Mojave Valley to Big Canyon / Joseph C. Ives -- Mojave Crossing to Oraibe Pueblo / Mojave Crossing to Oraibe Pueblo Francisco Garcés -- The Hopi mesas and the Colorado River / Pedro de Castañeda -- The story of Tiyo / G.M. Mullett -- Tudjupa creates the people / Hualapai -- They told stories / Ramson Lomatewama.