CANYON COUNTRY OFF-ROAD VEHICLE TRAILS: Island Area. by F.A. Barnes.
Covers the large area west of Moab, Utah, including the Island in the Sky district of Canyonlands National Park, listing and describing all of the backcountry access roads and 29 (most)of the major off-road vehicle segments. This is a land of unusual, often spectacular scenery including tall cliffs, narrow (even slot) canyons, desert landscape, spires, arches, colored rock, occasional wide rivers, more common dry sandy wash streambeds and potential heat and flash floods or wet and slick dirt roads. Trail notes give times and distances with notes on special features to see and situations to negotiate, often with notes on abandoned mines or settlements and geological features. Photographs, drawings, maps, 96 pages.
ISBN: 0-915272-15-6. 1978. bent cover. Order #: WASA1679 paper$4.95.

 

CANYONLANDS: the story behind the scenery (UT). by David Johnson.
Imagine an arid land of colored rock; a land of cliffs, canyons, arches, spires and mesas carved by water and time; a land of grand vistas and narrow rocky crevices; a wild land visited by people for millennia--Canyonlands.
The Colorado Plateau is a rugged land, a land of contrasts--unbroken expanses of rock, towering monoliths, great rivers, scorching canyon bottoms and icy mountain peaks.  At the heart of the Plateau is a mile-high maze of canyons, mesas and spires carved by the Green and Colorado rivers--Canyonlands National Park. This book escorts the reader through this high-desert land of rock as far as the eye can see and opens eyes to a close look at the life that thrives and has thrived for eons.  Natural and human history is sensitively examined and explained, as is the remarkable geology of this awe inspiring region. 9x12, 48 pages, 66 color photos & 2 maps.
ISBN: 978-0-88714-034-1. 1989. First printing. Order #: KCPU4628 paper$8.95

CANYONLANDS: the story behind the scenery (UT). by David Johnson.
Geologic wonderland of rocks, spires, mesas, Indian petroglyphs at Utah National park. Color photos, 48 large-format pages.
ISBN: 0-88714-034-3. 1993. Third printing . Order #: KCPU3823paper$8.95.

 

 

MAJOR JOHN WESLEY POWELL: voyage of discovery--the story behind the scenery. by Dan Murphy.
Travel with Powell on his harrowing 1869 journey of exploration to descend the Green River to the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. 9x12, 64 pages, 63 color photos, 28 maps.
  ISBN: 0-88714-059-9. 2001. Third printing. Order #: KCPU8090 paper$12.95.

 

 

RIVER RUNNER'S GUIDE TO CANYONLANDS NATIONAL PARK & VICINITY: with emphasis on geologic features. by Felix E. Mutschler.
Mileage logs--with emphasis on geology: Green River from Green River, Utah, to confluence of Green and Colorado Rivers; from above confluence to Hite, Utah; from Moab, Utah, to the confluence of the Colorado and Green Rivers. River guide with explanation of rock types, ages, and characteristics. Charts of geologic formations with geologic eras and ages. Glossary, references, photographs, river maps, 99 pages.
ISBN: None. No date. Order #: POSO1165 paper$4.95.

 

 

 

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THE CAÑONS OF THE COLORADO-- the 1869 discovery voyage down the Colorado River. by Major John Wesley Powell.
Note the word cañons in the title would today be spelled canyons but we have preserved the usage from the time when this voyage was made and written about by the major himself. From Wyoming, into Colorado, through Utah, to Arizona and the Grand Canyon, and to Nevada--this was the journey of the "Colorado River Exploring Expedition", what Powell called his group of 9 men and 4 boats as they began charting what was the last major unexplored part of the then United States. The trip was not only scientific in its goals, but it naturally became a grand adventure, with two of their party opting to leave the expedition before attempting a furious cascade, only to be killed by Indians. Much of the land and scenery which they drifted or dashed past is today included in National Park System areas.
Illustrations are by Thomas Moran and others. 64 pages. See sample pages, illustrations.
.ISBN-10: 0-89646-059-2. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-059-1. Order #: VIST0059 paper$4.95.

ROCK ART OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN by Campbell Grant.
This book surveys the myriad rock paintings and carvings--numbering possibly some 15,000 sites--pecked into and painted onto boulders and rock surfaces throughout North America by its aboriginal artists. With photographs and drawings on virtually every page, this book presents the rock artists through the work they left--illustrating their extraordinarily diverse techniques, styles, and subjects. Meanings of the designs are discussed, and their roles in hunting or puberty rites interpreted. Major rock art sites are located, and methods of recording, preserving, and dating them are indicated. Author Grant has done rock art books on the Chumash Indians, the Coso Range, and Canyon de Chelly. 192 pages + 16 page color insert. Large-format. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-084-3. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-084-3. Order #: VIST0084 paper$12.95.

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