Lake Powell/Glen Canyon Library

Is there any purpose in getting all the versions of Boaters Guide to Lake Powell? Or do you just buy the latest edition and call it good. The more recent editions should have all the information of the old ones plus new information?
 
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Is there any purpose in getting all the versions of Boaters Guide to Lake Powell? Or do you just buy the latest edition and call it good. The more recent editions should have all the information of the old ones plus new information?
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I’ve got about four versions of that book. I think all you need is the latest version, which is just an expansion of the earlier versions with better (and color) photos, more recent information and better descriptions…
 
cbass said:
Is there any purpose in getting all the versions of Boaters Guide to Lake Powell? Or do you just buy the latest edition and call it good. The more recent editions should have all the information of the old ones plus new information?
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I have every edition but it's just a collection. The first edition I think is self published, as I've gotten older the type seems very small but I love the photos of the lake and of the author; They are a time capsule of the lake as seen in the late70's/early 80's like Boatel Houseboats everywhere, no huge houseboats, the author pushing a john boat around in very short mens shorts wearing knee high tube tube socks, all fashions and things I remember from those days, that is why I have gathered all of them.

Has anyone mentioned Arizona Highways? They had dozens of issues dedicated to Powell, I have quite a few of them too. My most recent find was an issue about The Greatest Story Ever Told being filmed there.
 
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It was fun to watch the filming of the Greatest Story Ever Told, a long time ago. They worked on the lake and along the shoreline. If I remember correctly they filmed in Wahweap, Warm Creek, and a few other canyons in the southern lake. I am going to look and see if I have any old photos of the event. if I find any I will post them here.
 
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wayne gustaveson said:
It was fun to watch the filming of the Greatest Story Ever Told, a long time ago. They worked on the lake and along the shoreline. If I remember correctly they filmed in Wahweap, Warm Creek, ands a few other canyons in the southern lake. I am going to look and see if I have any old photos of the event. if I find any I will post them here.
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Here’s an old thread about the Greatest Story Ever Told… filmed in Dec 1962 through early 1963, just before the lake started to rise…

Key filming locations included the mouth of Kane Creek, basically near the Crossing of the Fathers…

JFRCalifornia

Thread 'The Greatest Story Ever Told - the last days before the rise of Lake Powell'

Since my recent post about Planet of the Apes, it got me thinking about another slightly earlier movie that provides a completely different insight into Glen Canyon, in literally its last days before it transformed into Lake Powell.

The Greatest Story Ever Told was a classic 3-hour biblical epic, released in 1965. It was a pretty good story, but not really a great movie (my opinion), although it was beautifully shot, with gorgeous cinematography in a sort of Lawrence of Arabia kind of way. Originally, director George Stevens’ idea was to film it right there in Israel and...
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Hooooo boy, do I have some books for you that I've found helpful in my research.

Slickrock by Edward Abbey
The Colorado Plateau by Donald Baars (geology)
Rainbow Bridge by Charles Bernheimer (exploration in the 1920s, focused on RB)
the University of Utah Anthropological Papers, Glen Canyon Series (anthropology and history from before the lake, generally pretty difficult to find)
Powell of the Colorado by William Culp Darrah
The Romance of the Colorado River by Frederick S. Dellenbaugh (history, by a member of Powell's second expedition)
The Glen Canyon Country by Don Fowler (general history of the area, by an anthropologist who got his start excavating Anasazi sites in Glen Canyon)
Downriver by Heather Hansman (not necessarily about Lake Powell but covers many of the relevant water issues)
Cass Hite by James Knipmeyer
The Life and Times of Denis Julien by Knipmeyer (both biographies of canyon country residents)
The Powell Expedition by Don Lago (only useful for those who want to get into the weeds of John Wesley Powell like I have)
The Ghosts of Dandy Crossing by Katie Lee (semi-autobiographical novel about the people who loved Glen Canyon and the river)
Exploring Desert Stone by Steven Madsen (history of the 1859 Macomb expedition that paved the way for John Wesley Powell)
Navajo Mountain and Rainbow Bridge Religion by Karl Luckert (Navajo beliefs and religious ceremonies about RB)
From Powell to Power by Otis 'Dock' Marston (history of the first 100 people to go through the Grand Canyon)
King of the Colorado by Tom McCourt (historical novel about Cass Hite)
Lake Powell by Loren Potter and Charles Drake (science and natural history)
Dead Pool by James Lawrence Powell (history and climatology)
Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner (history of Reclamation)
Colorado River Controversies by Robert Brewster Stanton (John Wesley Powell's dirty laundry)
Glen Canyon and the San Juan Country by Gary Topping (general history)
The Dominguez-Escalante Journal edited by Ted Warner and translated by Angelico Chavez
The Colorado by Frank Waters (beautifully written about the whole river)
A River Running West by Donald Worster (the longest and most recent John Wesley Powell biography)
Rivers of Empire by Donald Worster (history of Reclamation, disclaimer: not recommended for light reading)

These are the books I've read that I figured people on this forum would be interested in. I have more but they're less relevant to Lake Powell itself. And then of course, there's mine but we'll all have to wait a little while for that.
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Beat me to Don Baars' geology of the plateau. As one of his FLC students, he introduced and inspired hundreds of students from all over the country (world) with his lectures, river trips (Baar S River tours) on the Grand and many of the tributaries of the region. Was one of his boatmen - what memories!! He also was very active and published in several geo associations -Four Corners, Utah, New Mexico guidebooks. Anyone interested in more geologic stuff - just access their sites. RIP Don.:cry:
 
cbass said:
Is there any purpose in getting all the versions of Boaters Guide to Lake Powell? Or do you just buy the latest edition and call it good. The more recent editions should have all the information of the old ones plus new information?
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No real advantage of getting the old editions other than to say you have them. The newest one is packed with way more information, much better color pictures, and more information about what the lake is like at lower levels (meaning about 3600 or so). Kelsey also corrects old info he got wrong. For example, in the oldest editions, he said there was no hiking potential in Labyrinth Canyon, but later admitted he got it wrong because he’d never been up there.

Later editions also include good side stories and history.

But all editions, as Marina Bum says, show amusing pictures of Kelsey wearing shorts and tube socks straight from 1980.
 
JFRCalifornia said:
Here’s an old thread about the Greatest Story Ever Told… filmed in Dec 1962 through early 1963, just before the lake started to rise…

Key filming locations included the mouth of Kane Creek, basically near the Crossing of the Fathers…

JFRCalifornia

Thread 'The Greatest Story Ever Told - the last days before the rise of Lake Powell'

Since my recent post about Planet of the Apes, it got me thinking about another slightly earlier movie that provides a completely different insight into Glen Canyon, in literally its last days before it transformed into Lake Powell.

The Greatest Story Ever Told was a classic 3-hour biblical epic, released in 1965. It was a pretty good story, but not really a great movie (my opinion), although it was beautifully shot, with gorgeous cinematography in a sort of Lawrence of Arabia kind of way. Originally, director George Stevens’ idea was to film it right there in Israel and...
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I just loved the shot of someone important being baptized in Lake Powell, quite cinematic!
 
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