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Examines the location, origin, history, and uses of the Colorado River. ... Read more

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From the Rocky's to Mexico
I kind of like this one. It gives quite the geography lesson allwrapped up inwater.Each chapter is informative and could be read in a single setting. I like how simple the Grand Canyon is explained in the second chapter. The point of the book is the whole river and the author does a nice job of introducing all of the rivers components. But the best chapter is five, the people of the Colorado Basin. It starts not with Euro-man but with the Anasazi. Chapter six is the geography lesson. The map on page 11 should have been re-printed back here for the young reader to reference.I was going to rate this book a four until I saw the �To Find Out More Section�. It makethis book a Wow. It recommends even web sites and a CD-ROM. ... Read more

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Here is an imaginative collection of 662 recipes that have proven successful at all altitudes! In a step-by-step format, the Colorado Cookbook covers everything from treasured family dishes to exciting foreign fare. Presenting nutritional analysis, cooking and preparation times, and 18 full-color photos of Colorado's beauty, this one-of-a-kind cookbook is a winner for all culinary skills and lifestyles. ... Read more

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A Mile Higher Quality!
This is a cookbook that lives up to the reputation of the Flat Irons of the Front Range in Colorado that loom over the multi faceted "mini-tropolis" of Boulder, Colorado.If you love to cook, orlove Colorado, or love libraries, this is a cookbook that belongs in yourkitchen, in your collection, and to give as the perfect gift to anyone withwanderlust for mountains, enjoy exciting comfort food, or fantasize aboutbeing the next Emeril!

Some of the recipes that we whole heartedlyendorse from the book are: 1. Shrimp with Coconut (Udand Kelapa), 2.Coleslaw Dressing, 3. Crispy Waffles, 4. Vegetables Al Forno, 5. CaliforniaBouillabaisse.

There are more recipes we have tried and enjoyed aswell.The book is a bounty.Like Colorado itself, the book represents acolorful array of cultures, tastes, nutritional choices, ideas, and menusfor everyday and special occasions.

The additional benefit to theUniversity of Colorado Norlin Library is not to be overlooked.Norlin isan outstanding library that has a history rich with offering students,faculity, and the community at large a resource that is world class.

Addthis book to your shopping cart today and take the time to visit Coloradoand stop by Norlin Library at the University of Colorado Main Campus!Youwill have helped them to support tomorrow's world leaders with the BESTresources! ... Read more

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Lists Colorado's libraries with special or unusual collections.Includes activities that teach students about the importance of libraries, the Dewey Decimal System, the Library of Congress, Books-in-Print, contributions of Andrew Carnegie and how and why to use libraries.Listing includes many libraries with special collections about Colorado.Free teacher's guide. ... Read more

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Written by a former director of the library, this history is enlivened by its remarkable props and cast of characters: *A university seventeen years old, rated among the top eleven in the U.S.; *Three library buildings with a blown-down tower, shattering windows, floors near collapse, a roof near cave-in, and one with a rivulet running through it.; *A treasurer of the University who invented two standard basic elements in library construction and installed the first fluorescent lighting in libraries.; *A professor of English with greater knowledge of library methods than most librarians of his time.; *A librarian who literally worked himself to death.; *A librarian who was a remittance man from the East, and a famous football referee.; *A director, appointed at the recommendation of the football coach, who became President of the University.; *A director who left for greener pastures, then returned to over-top them all. The story of the University of Colorado Library unfolds within the societal forces that shaped universities over a century, and within the special conditions in the University to which it had to respond. By describing librarians working at real library tasks, Mason presents a thumbnail sketch of the way librarians performed during a century of enormous change. ... Read more

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Describes the history, people, geography, economy, government, state events and attractions, and social life and customs of Colorado. ... Read more

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Publisher: [S.l. : s.n.]Publication date: 1910Subjects: Colorado. Supreme Court. LibraryLawNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the text that can both be accessed online and used to create new print copies. This book and thousands of others can be found in the digital collections of the University of Michigan Library. The University Library also understands and values the utility of print, and makes reprints available through its Scholarly Publishing Office. ... Read more

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John Powell's gripping account of his 3-month 1869 expedition to explore the Colorado River territories. Introduction by Wallace Stegner. Penguin Nature Library. ... Read more

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A bit misleading...
It's easy to get the impression that this is a reprint of either 1) Powell's "official report" from the 1870's, or 2) Powell's "popular account" published by Flood and Vincent in the 1890's.

The sad reality: it is neither.

National Geographic Adventure Classics could - and should - have done better...but if they'd reprinted the Flood and Vincent version, it would be nothing but a knockoff of the popular Dover paperback edition.And if they'd done the "official report" version - it would have been of even less popular interest.

So what you get in the National Geographic edition: the text from Flood and Vincent, and a bunch of popular illustrations used by Powell (somewhere, sometime).And some introductory material that tells part - but certainly not all - of the history of this particular version. But this is certainly NOT a reprint of the Flood and Vincent edition - it's another bastardized version.

However - maybe you don't care about that.At least the illustrations (wonderful in and of themselves) are very well reproduced, much better than they are in the Dover and other editions that I am familiar with.

Exploration of the "white spaces" of life...
John Wesley Powell lost his right arm at Shiloh, in the Civil War battle of 1862. As Wallace Stegner says of him, in his excellent book, "Beyond the Hundredth Meridian,": "Losing one's right arm is a misfortune; to some it would be a disaster, to others an excuse. It affected Wes Powell's life about as much as a stone fallen into a swift stream affects the course of the river." The war finally ended, and Powell felt he still had much to do with his life. He saw an immense "white space" still on the map of the continental United States, in the southwest canyon country, and decided to "fill it in" by taking the first river voyage down the Green and Colorado rivers, in 1869. He was the commander of nine others, one of whom was to die, three deserted, and were killed by Indians, but he and the other five completed the entire journey, and this is their story, in Powell's own words.It took them almost 100 days to complete the journey, and they ran the entire gambit of dangers such a journey entailed, including sudden death in turbulent waters, starvation, and disease.

Many of the other reviewers focused on the portion that involved the Grand Canyon, and indeed anyone contemplating a modern-day raft trip would benefit from reading the original trip down the river; but this is only a tenth of the book. Of course the overall boat trip was much longer, commencing in Wyoming, and traversing all of modern day Utah. What the other reviews seem to understate is his ethnographic work - the study of the Indians that he met along the way, and afterward, including his visit at Zuni. His empathy for them is revealed in such passages as, in referring to Spanish efforts to convert them to Christianity: "The interpretation of the picture-writing is this: `Be baptized as this saved heathen, or be hanged as that damned heathen.' Doubtless, some of these people preferred another alternative, and rather than be baptized or hanged they chose to imprison themselves within these canyon walls."

Regrettably the current edition does not seem to include the numerous drawings and pictures that are available in my Dover edition, which does not seem to be available, and is easily half the story. Numerous of these drawings are in the Stegner work, and they can enchant the reader. As Stegner says, most of these prints and drawings are exaggerated in scale and detail, but they seem to capture the essence of the "canyon experience," a magic realism in drawings, if you will.

This is a classic and realistic work of the exploration, by the "white man," of the American West, and should be an essential component of any school curriculum dealing with the subject. May we all be inspired to fill in the additional "white spaces" of life.

Grand
Quite the accomplishment for anyone, let alone a one-armed Civil War veteran.

Major John Powell and a handful of men bounce, bound, rebound, splash, crash and portage from Wyoming's Green River all the way down the Colorado River thru canyons, mesas, gorges, buttes and cliffs 3,000 feet tall and then take on the Grandest of all Canyons.This was the blank on the map which needed to be filled in.
As Major Powell notes in his introduction, this was a scientific expedition to satisfy geological and geographical questions for the country.His descriptions of landforms are poetically captivating and enchanting.Of added interest are his portrayals of contemporary and ancient Indian cultures and ruins.

A minor correction to his speculations on William Ashley who ventured down the Green in 1825 and ultimately wrecked in the rapids (this may have been edited in later editions).
Ashley and all six of his men did survive their disaster, met up with some members of the Ute Indian tribe and French fur trappers, bartered for horses and eventually began the first mountain rendezvous along Henry's Fork in Wyoming.He did not go directly to Salt Lake City after the Green River wreckage to obtain provisions from the Mormons as they came to this part of the country in the late 1840's.

A good read for those into landforms, natural history and daringness.

Cornerstone of Southwestern history
John Wesley Powell wrote one of the finest dedications that's ever been written when, as a very old man, he penned thanks to the men, dead many years, with whom he'd explored the Grand Canyon and the Colorado River. Those moving words alone intimate the power and excitement awaiting this epic adventure.

Powell's writing is so factual that you have to strain at the words to get a real sense for the incredible dangers that Powell and his men faced. One crew member abandoned early on, and three who gave up just before the expedition's end were killed before ever getting out of the wilderness. Their deaths have been blamed on Mormons or native Americans. Starvation, drowning, and accidental death of every variety threatened the crew at every step of their three-month odyssey.

This trip down the primeval, untamed, terrible Colorado River and the first ever exploration of the Grand Canyon, all done by a one-armed Civil War veteran, ranks perhaps as the literary starting point for the opening of the Southwest. The etchings in the book and the grandeur of the scenery described by Powell are extraordinary.

Outstanding from cover to cover.
I started reading this book while on vacation in Mexico and was enthralled from the moment I picked the book up.

The writing style is a tiny bit hard to digest in the beginning, but clears up and gives you a very thorough, easy to follow narrative of the Colorado.

The drawings in the book give you an insight into what they sw along the way, and made the book a truly great read. ... Read more

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Written by those who managed Colorado State University Library's recovery from a 1997 flood, this handbook provides detailed advice and recommendations gleaned from years of intensive efforts to restore collections and services. ... Read more

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A structure for planning for possible library disasters
From damage by fire or water to handling the emotional impact of library systems which come to a crashing halt, this provides the working librarian with a structure for planning for possible library disasters. Chapters cover the basics of handling damaged collections and systems, and provide excellent depth and detail on the recovery options and solutions to common problems. ... Read more

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Describes the geography, plants and animals, history, economy, language, religions, culture, sports and arts, and people of the state of Colorado. ... Read more

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Discusses the land and climate, economy, government, and history of the Centennial State. Includes Internet links to Web sites related to Colorado. ... Read more

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Describes the people, geography, and climate of Colorado. ... Read more

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A history of the team that brought major league baseball to the mountain regions of America. ... Read more