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Show I 35 yt, ; - t I xv;-Nf s v 7 " W Photograph from "Standing Up Country," by C. Gregory Greg-ory Crampton, U of U professor. profes-sor. The book, jointly published pub-lished by Alfred Knopf, U of U Press, and Amon Carter Museum, gives vivid pictures and text of Utah - Arizona Canyonlands regions. U OF U PROF WRITES HISTORY OF 4-CORNER 'STANDING UP COUNTRY' "There is as much country standing up as there is laying down," someone wrote years ago of the Utah-Arizona canyon can-yon lands. Dr. C. Gregory Crampton, professor of history at the University of Utah, has built this observation into a new book, "Standing Up Country," Coun-try," currently being published by Alfred A. Knopf and the University of Utah Press in cooperation co-operation with the Amon Carter Car-ter Museum of Western Art of Fort Worth, Texas. Seeing the need for a "biography" "bi-ography" of the entire region of the canyons and tributaries of the Colorado River, Dr. Crampton has studied the land formations, the names and places, the events and activities, activi-ties, and especially the people making up the story of the area lying between Book made especially graphic by 126 photographs and facsimile maps, 16 of them in color, many of them filling an entire page or more. Dr. Crampton undertook his study in 1957 as supervisor of an archeological field program for the National Park Service and the University to salvage historical remnants from the area that was soon to be inundated in-undated by Lake Powell with the building of Glen Canyon Dam. His travel and data collecting soon extended well beyond the reservoir area. He has observed the entire canyon area from many angles, studied extensively, and sought the help of experts in many fields, from university scholars schol-ars to the men who run the Colorado and know it intimately. Cliffs, Utah, and White Mesa, Ariz., and between Bryce Canyon Can-yon and the Four Corners. "Men have seen the beauty of this land," says Dr. Crampton; Cramp-ton; "They have described the parts and segments in superlatives, superla-tives, but few men have seen the country as a whole." It is this whole picture, in a sense of both area and time, that "Standing Up Country'' offers. Even before its publication. Dr. Crampton's book has received re-ceived two distinct honors. It represents Alfred A. Knopf's first agreement to publish a book jointly; and the Amon Carter Museum, an institution concerned with broad study and documentation of the American West, has adopted Dr. Crampton's book to accompany accom-pany an exhibit it is planning on the Utah and Arizona canyon can-yon country. Many kinds of people have inhabited or visited the canyon country Indians (both ancient and modern), Spanish explorers, explor-ers, Mormon pioneers, miners, outlaws, scientists, government surveyors and explorers, and. in recent years, government reclamationists. They have gone there for many reasons to seek adventure or information; informa-tion; to find new travel routes; to practice their religion reli-gion according to conscience; to look for riches; to hide or escape; to establish new communities, com-munities, new farms, and new industries; to graze flocks and herds; to reclaim desert lands and learn to control and utilize uti-lize the waters of the Colorado; or just to wonder at and record, re-cord, with paint or pen, the wild and varied beauty of the area, believed to be the product prod-uct of some 20 million years of erosion. Dr. Crampton has treated them all, spicing his book with picturesque language, vivid and detailed description, excerpts ex-cerpts from journals, letters, and other first-hand accounts, and a style and tone which seem to put the reader in the position of one seeing or experiencing ex-periencing what is being described. de-scribed. Dr. Crampton's account ac-count of the canyon lands is |