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Show always was. we Back in the 70s people were Footing out a wilderness experience. People today demand a well-planned, pre-paid, recreational experience. They want to get all the information, do their climb and get out off the mountain. Back then you spent a lot more time in the hills. "That's change in a lot in climbers. It’s how fast you do it,” said a former guide interviewed in the article. The experience is more about conquering than it is about escaping a chaotic urban Even the increased traffic doesn't bother most of the tourist clientele, since the madness on the mountain is probably much less oe relatively easy, but it has risk. And we like risk.’ Being aggressive and taking risks on Wall Street is a little like mountain climbing.” peers eke ee WR tents foThe emer arena feral gees1 ae tae Ne opense ere iG re RSE ee Geen qc eee ee ee EILEAN ADAMS madness on the mountain is probably much less than the insanity they left at home. Another guide that I interviewed told me a revealing anecdote. He said he asked a group who worked in finance why they wanted to climb: "And they said, “Well, it’s ee — James White's Disputed Passage through Grand Canyon, 1867 : life. Even the increased traffic doesn’t bother most of this- tourist clientele, since the mee freee Hell or High Water Although John Wesley Powell and party are usually given credit for the first river descent through the Grand Canyon, the ghost of James White has haunted those claims. White was a Colorado prospector, who, almost two years before Powell’s journey, washed up on a makeshift raft at Callville, Nevada. Hell or High Water is the first full account of White’s story and how it became distorted and he disparaged over time. It is also a fascinating detective story, recounting how White’s granddaughter, Eilean Adams, over decades and with the assistance of a couple of notable Colorado River historians, gradually uncovered the record of James White’s adventure. $19.95 paper, ISBN 0-87421-425-4 and $39.95 cloth, ISBN 0-87421-426-2 | || Northern Navajo Frontier, 1860-1900 | Expansion through Adversity than the insanity they left at home. ROBERT S. MCPHERSON UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS 7800 O1p Main Hitt Locan, UTAH 84322 WWw.USU.EDU/UsUPRESS 1.800.239.9974 | al Going Back This year I returned to our mushroom picking spot. It had A several years since I visited this favorite childhood place. I realized all the secrecy in the world couldn't stop the promotions and developments the State Park was making. There were outhouses, a new ae parking lot, new entrance signs; all the result of my "fee demo dollars at wor! Even with the new parking spaces, there wasn’t enough room to park. There were signs describing birds and flowers along the trail; it seemed more like a museum than a preserve. The once empty trails were packed with a steady flow of day hikers. I was almost waiting to see a concession stand along the trail. I knew times had changed when instead of finding mushrooms, I found a cell phone. We don’t have the patience to explore anymore. We are so goal oriented and in : such a hurry that we-don’t have time to look around and make our own discoveries. We need to have signs to tell us what is all around us, guides to take us to the top of the mountain. We are walking right past the millions of small discoveries we can ! This book discusses the expanison of the Navajo into southeastern Utah, where between 1860 and 1900 they were able to secure a large portion of land’ that is still part of the reservation. 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