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Author Eggert, Charles, 1918-2005, author.

Title The last canyon voyage : a filmmaker's journey down the Green and Colorado Rivers / Charles Eggert
Published Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 353 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Intro -- Contents -- Editor's Note -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. The Idea -- 2. Don Hatch -- 3. Cid Sumner -- 4. Last Preparations in Vernal -- 5. Meeting in Green River -- 6. Getting Ready to Launch -- 7. On the River at Last -- 8. Shakedown -- 9. Red Canyon and the First Rapids -- 10. Brown's Park and the Gates of Lodore -- 11. Hell's Half Mile -- 12. Rippling Brook -- 13. Echo Park and Harper's Corner -- 14. Photographing the Yampa River and Jones Hole -- 15. Whirlpool and Split Mountain Canyons -- 16. Vernal Interlude -- 17. Uinta Basin -- 18. Desolation Canyon
19. McPherson Ranch -- 20. Gray Canyon and Green River, Utah -- 21. Labyrinth and Stillwater Canyons-Cid Leaves the Expedition -- 22. Cataract Canyon -- 23. The Big Drops, Dark Canyon Rapid, and Hite -- 24. Hite to Ticaboo Creek -- 25. Glen Canyon -- 26. Hidden Passage -- 27. Rainbow Bridge to Lee's Ferry -- 28. L'Envoi-Grand Canyon -- Notes -- Afterword: After the River
Summary "Recounts the last of the few river trips to follow Powell's path down the Green and Colorado before those rivers were dammed"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 21, 2020)
Subject Eggert, Charles, 1918-2005 -- Travel -- Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
Eggert, Charles, 1918-2005 -- Travel -- Green River (Wyo.-Utah)
SUBJECT Eggert, Charles, 1918-2005 -- Travel -- Green River (Wyo.-Utah)
Eggert, Charles, 1918-2005 -- Travel -- Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
Subject Motion pictures -- Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
Motion pictures -- Green River (Wyo.-Utah)
Motion pictures
Travel
SUBJECT Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) -- Description and travel
Green River (Wyo.-Utah) -- Description and travel
Subject North America -- Colorado River
United States -- Green River (Wyoming-Utah)
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019053503
ISBN 9781607817352
1607817357
1607817349
9781607817345