HISTORY |
| history | who owns grand canyon? | colorado river | logging, mining, ranching | literature | humans at grand canyon | music | native cultures | science | visual arts |
"This landscape has been shaped by ideas, words, images, and experiences. Instead of faults, rivers, and mass wasting, the processes at work involved geopolitical upheavals and the swell of empires, the flow of art, literature, science, and philosophy, the chisel of mind against matter. These determined the shape of Canyon meaning." |
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- Stephen Pyne, How the Canyon Became Grand |
This 1908 painting, “Grand Canyon of the Colorado,” by renowned landscape artist Thomas Moran, is one of many paintings by many artists from around the world who have tried to capture the grandeur of the view from the canyon’s edge. Photo: Courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog. |
On May 24, 1869, Major John Wesley Powell, his brother Walter, and eight mountain men launched boats into Green River, Wyoming Territory, on a historic quest to travel down the Green and then the Colorado River and through Grand Canyon. Though they were the first EuroAmericans inside the canyon, Powell found ample evidence that humans had lived there for centuries.
THE GRAND CANYON IN AMERICAN HISTORY
- Who Owns the Grand Canyon?
- Humans at Grand Canyon
- Native Cultures
- Science and the Grand Canyon
- Logging, Mining, and Ranching
- Literature and the Grand Canyon
- Music and the Grand Canyon
- Photography and the Visual Arts
- The Colorado River in Canyon History
EXPLORE THE CANYON HISTORY
Photo: National Park Service |
Photo: Patricia Biggs |
Photo: National Park Service |
Photo: GRCA #22323, Fred Harvey Collection |
COLORADO RIVER |
NATIVE CULTURES |
SCIENCE |
VISUAL ARTS |
| - River Running History | - Havasupai - Hopi - Hualapai - Kaibab Paiute - Las Vegas Paiute - Moapa Paiute - Navajo - Utah Paiute - San Juan Paiute - White Mountain Apache - Yavapai Apache - Zuni |
- Ecology - Fire Science - Geology - Wildlife |
- Photography - Postcards - Celebration of Art - Landscape Art |