The Place No One Knew: Glen Canyon on the ColoradoA Glen Canyon happens only once; there is no scenic climax anywhere that can quite approach it. Prehistoric Indian sites have been salvaged. |
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alcove American Arch Arizona Aztec Creek bank beauty blue Bridge Canyon canyon walls carved Cathedral Canyon CID RICKETTS SUMNER clay cliffs color Colorado River dark dead deep desert varnish Dungeon Canyon Dutton earth Eliot Porter's eroded erosion Escalante River face feel feet floods flow geological Glen Canyon dam green Gulch HENRY BESTON Hidden Passage human hundred John Wesley Powell JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH land Lee's Ferry lichens light live look LOREN EISELEY maidenhair man's Mesa miles million miracle monumental Moqui Mountains Music Temple narrow natural Navajo sandstone never past Plateau pool Rainbow Bridge Redbud river's edge rock San Juan San Juan River sand sculpture seas sediments shadow side canyons spring stone strata stream surface thing Ticaboo tributaries Twilight Canyon unconformities upper Wall detail WALLACE STEGNER waterfall weather WELDON HEALD Wesley Powell wild wilderness willow wind Wingate wonder