A Colorado River reader

Why the Grand Canyon was made / Paiute Indian legend.

from The Domínguez-Escalante Journal / Silvestre V élez de Escalante.

from the Grand to the Little Colorado / John Wesley Powell.

Cataract Canyon / Robert Brewster Stanton.

Silent river / John C. Van Dyke.

A wonderland of crags and pinnacles / Frederick S. Dellenbaugh.

Its delta / Frank Waters.

The river-runners / T. H. Watkins.

Encounters with an archdruid / John McPhee.

Conquering Glen Canyon / Georgie White Clark.

Canyon County: the ultimate ditch / Philip L. Fradkin.

Down the river with Henry Thoreau / Edward Abbey.

Rapids, icewater and fire / Bill Beer.

Gravity in a fluid medium / Ellen Meloy.

Badger Creek and running rapids / Ann Zwinger.

Big drop / Colin Fletcher.

Plant journey / Linda Hogan.