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2012 Grand Canyon History Symposium Contents

2012 Grand Canyon History Symposium Contents

Frontmatter
Introduction by Richard D. Quartaroli
Welcome by Superintendent Dave Uberuaga

Chapter 1: Sights and Sounds: Fox Movietone Visits Grand Canyon, June 1929, by Jennifer L. Jenkins, Ph.D.

Chapter 2: Ethnobotany of the Hualapai Tribe, by Carrie Cannon and Jennifer Lipton

Chapter 3: Otis “Dock” Marston: Dean of Colorado River Historians and Fastwater Boatmen, by Richard D. Quartaroli

Chapter 4: Facing Your Danger: The History of the Cataract Boat, by Roy Webb

Chapter 5: The Biggest Water Ever Run, by Dave Mortenson

Chapter 6: The Gem: Grand Canyon’s First Dory, by Tom Martin

Chapter 7: Audacity, Logistics, and Skill: The 1960 Jet Boat Trip in the Grand Canyon, by Philip M. Smith and Buzz Belknap

Chapter 8: 2012 Centennial of the Hermit Road: 100 Years of History, by Jonathan Upchurch, Ph.D.

Chapter 9: Exploring the John Hance Inner-Canyon Toll Road, by Doug Nering

Chapter 10: Down the Gorge with Uncle George: Hiking the Length of Grand Canyon, by Tom Myers

Chapter 11: Life Among the Havasupai, 1945-1962: The Photographs of Robert H. Kuhne, by Mona McCroskey

Chapter 12: The Other Spectacle: Navajo Weavers at Grand Canyon National Park, by Jennifer McLerran

Chapter 13: No Fries ’Til Mail: How Tourism Brought Mail Service to the Grand Canyon by Marjory J. Sente

Chapter 14: The Blue-Eyed Indian, by John S. Azar

Chapter 15: Ghost Rock, by Frank M. Barrios

Chapter 16: The Making of In the House of Stone and Light, by J. Donald Hughes, Ph.D.

Chapter 17: Geologists through Time in the Grand Canyon: From Newberry to a New Century, by Wayne Ranney

Chapter 18: Pioneer Trails “to” Grand Canyon, by Dick Brown

Chapter 19: Thoughts on the Origin and Age of the Mysterious MONTEVIDEO Inscription and the Route the 16th Century Spanish Explorers May Have Used to Descend into Grand Canyon by Ray Kenny, Ph.D., PG

Chapter 20: The MONTE VIDEO Inscription: Why It Is Likely from the Bass Tourist Era, by Jonathan Upchurch, Ph.D.

Chapter 21: What They Were Searching for: The Wetherills and Their Explorations of the Colorado Plateau, by Harvey Leake

Chapter 22: In the Steps of My Fathers, by Robert M. Lauzon

Chapter 23:The Trails of an Early Canyon Kid, by Barbara Stephens Odderstol

Chapter 24: Peggy Verkamp: A Canyon Life Well-Lived, by Susan Verkamp

Chapter 25: Getting History Right: The Ives Expedition of 1857-1858, by Jerry Snow

Chapter 26: Baron von Egloffstein and the First Published Images of Grand Canyon, by David Miller

Chapter 27: The Walcott Journal: Deciphering the Grand Canyon Expedition of 1882-1883, by Dennis Foster

Chapter 28: Harvey Girls at the Grand Canyon, by Pam Knight Stevenson

Chapter 29: Business Women Tourists at the Grand Canyon, by Janolyn G. LoVecchio

Chapter 30: Phantom Ranch: A Junction and a Crucible, by Robert W. Audretsch

Chapter 31: Picking up the Pieces: Park Service Management of the Grand Canyon Disaster Crash Sites, 1956-2006, by Benjamin T. Carver

Chapter 32: The 1956 Grand Canyon Aviation Accident: Impacts on the Local Community and Recent Site Management, by Ian Hough

Chapter 33: Falling into the Canyon: The 1944 Airmen’s Surprise Visit to the Grand Canyon, by Roy Webb

Chapter 34: Glen Canyon Dam: Construction 1963 and Reconstruction 1983, by Gary Ladd

Chapter 35: Nicholas Roosevelt’s 1913 Travels on the Colorado Plateau, by Waldo M. Wedel

Chapter 36: “Follow the Trail over Ledge and Shale”: The Grand Canyon Poems and Photographs of Mai Richie Reed, by Erik Berg

Chapter 37: Zane Grey on the North Rim, by Alan Pratt, Ph.D.

Chapter 38: Gunnar Widforss: The Artist and the Myths, by Alan Petersen

Chapter 39: Natural Quiet Resource Mismanagement (overflights noise) at Grand Canyon National Park: The Reagan Torpedo, 1986-1987, by Dickson J. Hingson, Ph.D.

Chapter 40: The View from the Top: How Stephen Mather and the National Park Service Took Over Management of the Grand Canyon, by Cathryn S. Dippo

Chapter 41: Vignettes of America at the Grand Canyon, by Thomas Patin

Backmatter
Appendix A: Symposium Participants, Sponsors, Supporters, and Call for Feedback
Appendix B: Schedule
Appendix C: Contributors
Appendix D: URL
Index

 

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