The Promise of the Grand Canyon
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Prentiss, Benjamin, 54
Principles of Geology (Lyell), 19–20, 21
progressivism, 287
Promontory, 101
Protestantism, 6, 7, 9–11
Ptarmigan Mountain, 98
public lands, 266–73, 274
Townsend Hearings, 234–36, 238, 242, 246, 251
Purgatory, 16–17
Quartzite, 122
Racine, 29, 30
railroads, 212–13, 257–58
Rainfall, 262, 309
100th Meridian, 251–52
causing flashfloods, 151
“Rain follows the plow” theory, 258–59
shaping landscape, 140
and watersheds, 151
“Rain follows the plow” theory, 258–59
Ransom, Thomas E. G., 65–66
Reagan, John Henninger, 313, 315, 316–18
Recession of 1892, 327–28
Reconstruction, 90, 291
Red Canyon, 122
Red Cloud, 249
Red Creek, 122
“Red-eye years,” 32
Red River, 40, 253
Reno Gazette, 320–21
Report of the Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and Its Tributaries, 240–42, 247
Report on the Lands of the Arid Region of the United States, 260–63, 270, 302, 318, 335
Report Upon the Colorado River of the West (Ives), 84–85
Report upon United States Geographical Surveys West of the One Hundredth Meridian, 223, 251–52
reservations, Indian, 227, 229, 230, 248
reservoirs, 302, 306, 308, 332, 338, 340
Richardson, Frank, 202
Rideing, William H., 71
Rio Grande River, 304
Risdon, John A., 141–43
river formation, 125, 139–40, 178–79
Riverside Press, 226, 237
Robinson, Ezekiel G., 272–73
Rock Island Railroad, 46–47
Rocky Mountain expeditions of 1867 and 1868, 78–82, 86–88, 114, 182
funding, 76–78
Longs Peak climb, 93–100
Pikes Peak climb, 81–82
Powell’s idea for, 75–76
Powell’s report on, 88–89
Rocky Mountain News, 80, 88, 140, 141–42, 199, 271, 306
Roosevelt, Theodore, 71, 300, 318, 336
rooster tails, 149
Roughing It (Twain), 305
rowing stroke, 119–20
“Runoff,” 304
Sabine River, 253
St. Francis Dam, 334
St. Louis, 43, 48, 217
Salt Creek, 13, 19
salting (food), 17
Salt Lake Basin, 306
Salt Lake City, 129, 173, 208, 226
Salt Lick Creek, 17–18, 19
salt licks, 17–18
Samuel Hale, 31
San Fernando Valley, 334
San Francisco Chronicle, 329
San Francisco Morning Bulletin, 222–23
San Juan River, 107
San Román, Francisco, 327
Santa Fe Trail, 25, 256
Savage, Charles R., 208
scalping, 88–89
Schiel, James, 83
Schott, Charles A., 260
Schurz, Carl, 248–50, 260, 263, 269, 272, 277
science, 215
in shaping Powell, 18, 20–21
federal role in, 237, 266, 279, 283, 287, 289, 291, 298, 299
Powell’s views on, 242, 293–94, 296
See also Geology
Scotch-Irish immigrants, 13
Scott, Walter, 201
Scouting boat. See Emma Dean
Scribner’s Monthly, 187, 195, 218, 219, 238–39
Second Colorado River Exploring Expedition. See Colorado River Exploring Expedition of 1871-1872
sedimentary rocks, 157
Seminole Wars, 256
Senate Select Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands, 1, 2–4, 303, 308–15
Separation Canyon, 190
Separation Rapid, 165–66, 171, 174–75, 182, 189
Sevier Lake, 83, 184
Sevier River, 204
Sevier River Valley, 259
Shawnee Indians, 5, 16
Sherman, John, 277
Sherman, William Tecumseh, 277
in Civil War, 53, 54, 59, 62, 67, 68, 95
in the West, 78–79
Shiloh, Battle of, 1, 52–58
Shipping News, 80
Shivwit Paiute Indians, 173, 189–93, 198
Shivwits Plateau, 190
Shoshone Indians, 227
Shreve, Henry Miller, 40
Siege of Corinth, 52, 53–55
Siege of Vicksburg, 61–66, 87
Sioux Indians, 78–79, 217, 245, 249
skiffs, 40–41
Skull Creek, 122
slavery, 6–7, 11–16, 21–22, 46–47
Smith, John Q., 249
Smithsonian American Art Museum, 233
Smithsonian Institution, 77, 217, 245
Bureau of Ethnology, 230, 275–76, 279, 285, 335
Smythe, William, 328–29, 332, 333
snag boats, 40
Snake River, 304
Snow, Erastus, 173, 183, 186–87, 192
Sockdolager Rapid, 158
Soil Conservation Service, 340
Southern Pacific Railroad, 301
Southern Railway, 64
Southey, Robert, 126
South Fork Dam, 309
Southport, 29, 30–32
Split Mountain Canyon, 139–40
Spriggs, Tolly, 336
Stanley, Henry Morton, 55–56, 308
Stanley-Brown, Joseph, 278, 279
Stanton, Edwin, 77, 90, 112, 214
Stanton, Robert Brewster, 107
Steamboat Rock, 137, 138
steamboats, 40–41
Steer Ridge Canyon, 145
stereographs, 208, 223, 246
Stevenson, James, 275, 285
Steward, John, 204, 206, 208
Stewart, William M.
background of, 304–5
irrigation views of, 301–2, 304–5, 321–22
Powell and, 4, 304–6, 308–11, 315–16, 323–24, 328
Senate hearings, 4, 308–17
Storm in the Rocky Mountains (Bierstadt), 81
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 6–7
Sublime, the, 231, 233, 238–39
Sulphur Springs, 87, 199
Sumner, Jack
background of, 86–87
in Colorado River Expedition, 86–88, 102–3, 111, 112, 114, 116, 120, 122, 123, 126, 127–28, 130–32, 134, 136–38, 140–41, 145–46, 148, 150, 153, 154, 157–58, 159, 161–68
guilt over Howland party leaving Colorado River Exploring Expedition, 171–72
post-expedition life of, 170–72, 192, 198–200
in Rocky Mountain expeditions, 87, 93–94, 96, 98–100
self-mutilation, 172
as symbol of the Old West, 171
William Byers and, 86, 198–99, 200
Surprise Rapids, 145
Tavaputs Plateau, 144
Taylor, J. B., 74
Taylor Grazing Act of 1934, 340
Tenney, Ammon, 195–96
Tertiary History of the Grand Canyon District (Dutton), 312, 324–25
32nd Iowa Volunteer Infantry, 87
Thomas, Cyrus, 258
Thomas, George H., 68–69
Thompson, Almon Harris, “Prof,” 78
background of, 200
Powell�
��s survey work, 228, 240, 241, 303, 314
in second Colorado River Expedition, 200, 202–11
Thompson, Ellen Powell “Nellie,” 78, 200
Thompson, John, 72
Thoreau, Henry David, 44
Tibetan Plateau, 105
Tooele Valley, 183–84
topographical mapping, 270, 282–84, 291–92, 309–10, 312, 313–14, 315, 341
Townsend Hearings, 234–36, 238, 242, 246, 251
“Tragedy of the commons,” 319–20
Treatise on Field Fortifications (Mahan), 47–48
Triassic period, 121
Truckee River, 304
Trumbull, Lyman, 91
Truth and Error, or the Science of Intellection (Powell), 335–36
Tuba (chief), 198
Tubman, Harriet, 6
Turner, Frederick Jackson, 223, 336
Turner, Jonathan B., 36–38, 44
Tusayan, 194–95
Twain, Mark. See Clemens, Samuel
Two Years Before the Mast (Dana), 39
20th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment, 46–67
Uinkaret Paiute Indians, 189–93
Uinkaret Plateau, 188
Uinta Fault, 122
Uintah Valley Indian Agency, 140, 143, 181
Uinta Indian Reservation, 140, 143
Uinta Mountain Quartzite, 122
Uinta Mountains, 102, 116, 120, 121
Uinta Plateau, 144
Uinta River, 140, 144, 204
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe), 6–7
Underground Railroad, 13–14, 21, 22
uniformitarianism, 20
Union Pacific Railroad, 110, 111, 112, 199, 213
United States Exploring Expedition, 213, 254–55
United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, 216–19
United States Geological Survey. See Geological Survey, U.S.
University of Pennsylvania, 58–59, 216, 217
University of Wisconsin, 287
Utah Territory, 26
Colorado River Exploring Expeditions, 104–5, 121–22, 154, 181–82
map, xvii
Mormon migration to, 25, 49, 78, 182, 186
Utah War, 83–84, 186
Ute Indians, 83, 95, 97, 101–2, 143, 182, 184, 193, 227
Vauban, Sébastien Le Prestre de, 47–48
Veléz de Escalante, Silvestre, 109
Verne, Jules, 307–8
Vicksburg, Siege of, 61–66, 87
Virgin River, 162–64, 169, 228
Vishnu Schist, 157
Von Egloffstein, F. W., 84–85
Vulcan’s Throne, 160
wagon trains, 24–25
Walcott, Charles, 281, 287, 324, 335
Walden Pond, 44
Wallace, W. H. L., 55, 56–57, 59–60
Walnut Bayou Road, 62
Ward, Lester Frank, 281, 287
Washington, DC, 209, 284–85, 288
Washington Territory, 113
water issues
fight with Senator Stewart over irrigation,
modern politics of, 338–42
See also Aquifers, Aridity, Commonwealth watershed model, Irrigation, Rainfall, Watersheds
water rights, 305, 306, 308, 332
watersheds, 3, 308–9, 319–20, 342
water shortage, 4, 252, 261–62, 300–301
Weber Sandstone, 136–37, 139
Wells Fargo & Company, 77, 170, 211
Wesleyan Methodist Church, 21, 33
Western Union, 285
West Tavuts Plateau, 204
West Temple of the Virgin, 228
Wheaton, Illinois, 34, 73
Wheaton College, 33. See also Illinois Institute
Wheeler, George Montague, 215, 219–22
background of, 219–20, 239
fighting among survey leaders, 215, 224–26, 234–35, 238, 242, 269
Grand Canyon expedition, 221–22, 225
survey work, 219–21, 227, 234–36, 239, 240, 246, 247, 259, 260, 266
Townsend Hearings and, 234–36, 242
Whirlpool Canyon, 139
whirlpools, 139, 150, 167
whiskey, 131, 171
White, Charles, 246
White, James, 106–8, 109
Whitehall boats, 117–20, 133, 201
White River, 101, 144
whitewater
boating techniques in, 119–20
conditions causing, 122
features of, 149, 150
whitewater rafting, 119–20
Whitman, Walt, 244
Whitney, Joseph, 214
Wilber, C. D., 341–42
Wilkes, Charles, 213, 254–55
Wilson, Henry, 91
Winnebago Indians, 28–29
Winnie’s Rapid, 126
Wisconsin, 183, 248, 252
Powell’s family lives in, 24–33
Wisconsin Glaciation, 42
Wisconsin Territory, 24–31
Wood, John Tyler, 116–17
Wood, Rev. W.C., 93–94
Woodson, Thomas, 14, 21
Yale University, 36, 74, 212, 213, 214, 249, 263, 264, 287
Yampa River, 101, 136–37
Yellowstone, 218–19
Yellowstone Falls, 105, 231
Yellowstone National Park, 219, 233
Yellowstone River, 217, 225
Young, Brigham
migration west, 25, 49, 78, 182
Mountain Meadows Massacre, 186–87, 192–93, 205
Powell and, 182, 183, 185–88, 197, 227–28
Zion National Park, 228
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About the Author
John Ross is a former editor of American Heritage and an adventure writer with extensive whitewater experience. His previous books are Enduring Courage: Ace Pilot Eddie Rickenbacker and the Dawn of the Age of Speed and War on the Run: The Epic Story of Robert Rogers and the Conquest of America's First Frontier, which won the Fort Ticonderoga Award for Contributions to American History.
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