• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: River flowing from the sunrise : an environmental history of the lower San Juan
  • Contributor: Aton, James M [Author]; McPherson, Robert S. [Other]
  • imprint: Logan: Utah State University Press, 2000
    [S.l.]: HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 216 pages)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 9780874213973; 0874213975; 9780874214048; 0874214033; 0874214041; 9780874214031
  • Keywords: Human ecology San Juan River Valley (Colo.-Utah) History ; Nature Effect of human beings on San Juan River Valley (Colo.-Utah) ; Human ecology ; Nature ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Human Geography ; HISTORY ; United States ; State & Local ; West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) ; Ecology ; Nature ; Effect of human beings on ; United States ; San Juan River Valley ; History ; San Juan River Valley (Colo.-Utah) Environmental conditions ; San Juan River Valley (Colo.-Utah) ; Electronic books
  • Place of reproduction: [S.l.]: HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
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  • Description: Foreword: A river in time -- Introduction: Twelve millennia on the San Juan -- ch. 1, Prehistory: from clovis hunters to corn farmers -- ch.2, Navajos, Paiutes, and Utes: views of a sacred land -- ch. 3, Exploration and science: defining terra incognita -- ch. 4, Livestock: cows, feed, and floods -- ch. 5, Agriculture: ditches, droughts, and disasters -- ch. 6, City building: farming the triad -- ch. 7, Mining: black and yellow gold in redrock country -- ch. 8, The federal government: dams, tamarisk, and pikeminnows -- ch. 9, San Juan of the imagination: local and national values -- Epilogue: Visions: flowing from the sunrise or a water spigot?

    Foreword: A river in time -- Introduction: Twelve millennia on the San Juan -- ch. 1, Prehistory: from clovis hunters to corn farmers -- ch.2, Navajos, Paiutes, and Utes: views of a sacred land -- ch. 3, Exploration and science: defining terra incognita -- ch. 4, Livestock: cows, feed, and floods -- ch. 5, Agriculture: ditches, droughts, and disasters -- ch. 6, City building: farming the triad -- ch. 7, Mining: black and yellow gold in redrock country -- ch. 8, The federal government: dams, tamarisk, and pikeminnows -- ch. 9, San Juan of the imagination: local and national values -- Epilogue: Visions: flowing from the sunrise or a water spigot?
  • Access State: Open Access