An edition of Wrecks of human ambition
(2014)
Wrecks of human ambition
a history of Utah's Canyon Country to 1936
by Paul T. Nelson
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Wrecks of human ambition: a history of Utah's Canyon Country to 1936
2014, The University of Utah Press
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1607813335 9781607813330
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Table of 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
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-291) and index.
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