How the Canyon Became Grand
A Short History
 
 
 
 
 

Viking, 1998; Penguin pb, 1999
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Table of Contents

Overlook: The View from Dutton Point

Two New Worlds
    Canyon, Found and Lost
    Second Age, Second Chance
    Convergence

Rim and River
    Lonely and Majestic Way: Big Canyon
    Into the Great Unknown: Grand Canyon
    Against the Currents: Return to Big Canyon
    A Great Innovation: Grand Ensemble
    Leave It as It Is: One of the Great Sights

Canyon and Cosmos
    Modernism Moves On: The Populist Canyon
    Down the River and Back from the Brink: The Environmentalist Canyon

Afterword: A Rview from Point Sublime

Appendix: The Grand Canyon, A Graphical Profile

Notes

Sources and Further Reading