Table of Contents

Foreword by Edward Abbey
Introduction by W.L.Rusho
Preface
The Colorful Past of Glen Canyon
Color photographs follow
I. Glen Canyon and Man
II. Wahweap to Rainbow Bridge
III. Rainbow Bridge to Bullfrog and Hall’s Crossing
IV. Bullfrog and Hall’s Crossing to Hite
V. San Juan River Arm
VI. Glen Canyon Dam to Lee’s Ferry
Selected Bibliography
Index

About the Author

C. Gregory Crampton (1911-1995) was a professor of history at the University of Utah for more than thirty years. He and his crews made thirteen trips down Glen Canyon identifying, documenting, and photographing the evidence of human experience there. He is the author of Standing Up Country, Land of Living Rock, and numerous other books on the history of the Southwest. W. L. 'Bud' Rusho served as public affairs chief for the Glen Canyon Dam construction project, leading a team of U.S. Bureau of Reclamation photographers in the recording of the construction of Glen Canyon Dam. He is the author of Lee's Ferry: Desert River Crossing and The Wilderness Journals of Everett Reuss. Philip Hyde (1921-2006) was a wilderness photographer and for many years the principle conservation photographer for the Sierra Club. His fifteen books include As Long as the Rivers Shall Run and Slickrock: The Canyon Country of Southeast Utah.

Reviews

"Enjoyment of the vast lake by any visitor can be immeasurably enhanced by keeping a copy of Ghosts of Glen Canyon close at hand."--Stan Jones ('Mr. Lake Powell'), John Wesley Powell Memorial Museum