This book will hurt to read. The Eliot Porter photos show what has been lost to our generation by the grossly irresponsible act of damning Glen Canyon. However the book also shows what has been saved in pictures of the Grand Canyon. May we know by our failure at Glen Canyon what to protect, and why, in the future.

Powell's own narrative, of course, forms the main written portion of the book, and its direct, yet eloquent, writings should remain a strong part of the story of what it is to be an American. Equal parts dry text and awed wonder, it is a must read.

A spiffy book, in the same vein as the acclaimed Sierra Club format series, of which I suspect this book may have been intended to be part. Enjoy this essential part of any Western library.

Ann Haymond Zwinger has contributed her scientific expertise to subsidized, multi-week inner-canyon environmental impact expeditions, has run each of the Canyon's rapids countless times (in nearly each month of the year), in every sort of water craft. What her scientific eye takes in, her pen transmutes into its own river of irresistible prose, carrying the reader, willing or not, from one chapter to the next. As a hiker, I expected the vision of a "boat person" to suffer from its constricted horizons. A bottom-up myopia. Instead, we find ourselves soaring with eagles. We climb cliffs, clawing our way through a darkness of thorns and pain. We crawl along brushy beaver tunnels. We ponder the local history and lore...and the primeval past. Our journey evokes visions of thousand foot-high lava dams filling the entire Canyon with water, as well as today's horror of a rapid at Lava Falls. While some of her snippets of local human history are rarely mentioned in other books about the Canyon, Zwinger's forte is in the natural sciences. In that arena, she has no peer among Grand Canyon authors. Since this is not a trail manual, it is not easy to restrict one's reading to a single, specific Canyon location. Rather, the chapters are organized by seasons of the year. No matter. If you start at the beginning, its 220 or so pages of narrative will sweep you into their main current and, well... I'll see you below the rapids.

Go across the lands of COLORADO. Just hike, boat, climb or ski. This book has it all, JUST READ IT!

I just used this book while on a vacation in these areas of Colorado. The reccomendations in the book are very helpful and the use of this book really helped make my vacation a success. It is very easy to read and follow and FULL of information about both the sites in the book and interesting history of the area. Great book to buy if you are planning a vacation to Colorado.

A useful and compact guide, focused on Rocky Mountain National Park and the nearby towns of Estes Park and Grand Lake. Practical tips. The chapters on day hikes included something for everyone -- trails ranging from 1/2 mile very easy trails to very difficult trails. The maps were a little difficult to read. A useful addition would be a fold-out color map.

I found this to be a nice and not overly deep view of life on the Colorado plains. An area that is generally overlooked or forgotten today, the prairie played an important part in the settlemnet of the west and not much is left for us to learn from, and this book presented some obscure facts and tidbits of information that I found fascinating. As a history buff, I find it very interesting to see where man has been and may end up in the future.

This is a fine book by an experienced geologist. Parker has included many detailed maps and interesting historical photographs. Most valuable to me however, was his explanation and drawings of placer geology and where to find the gold. I am a novice prospector and I found this book invaluable. I would imagine that the list of specific placer gold locations would also benefit experienced prospectors. I can recommend this book.

A good and useful table of waypoints, in latitude - longitude format.

The data is apparently taken from section maps, resulting in up to a half-mile inaccuracy in all the points I've checked personally. (Other books with few enough waypoints for the authors to check on sight agree to within a few feet of my measurements.) A half-mile is good enough for mountains and lakes, but not good enough to let you use the book to pinpoint road intersections in unfamiliar towns.

Hank Wiescamp ultimately breed some of the greatest horses from four registeries - Quarter, Appalossa, Palomino, and Paint. "The Hank Wiescamp Story" allows the reader to understand how and why Hank made many breeding decisions to create the great "Wiescamp horse". After this book, you too will appreciate what Hank Wiescamp has done to create many of the modern breeds.

Hats off to Hank...... Highly recommend this book for all. Pictures, pedigrees and stories. However, 207 pages could not begin to touch the surface of the 70 years it took to create the "Wiescamp horse".

This book was really good. It had excitement, mystery, and humor. It took awhile for the good part to actually begin, but I liked it anyway. If you're a Riding Academy fan, you'll really enjoy it.