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Damming Grand Canyon: The 1923 USGS Colorado River Expedition

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Damming Grand Canyon: The 1923 USGS Colorado River Expedition
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Publisher: Utah State University Press
ISBN/ASIN: 0874216605
ISBN-13: 9780874216608
Number of pages: 305

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In 1923, America paid close attention, via special radio broadcasts, newspaper headlines, and cover stories in popular magazines, as a government party descended the Colorado to survey Grand Canyon. Led by Claude Birdseye and including colorful characters such as early river-runner Emery Kolb, popular writer Lewis Freeman, and hydraulic engineer Eugene La Rue, the expedition not only made the first accurate survey of the river gorge but sought to decide the canyon's fate. The primary goal was to determine the best places to dam the Grand.

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