Uncompahgre

Science & Math

Marshall, Muriel

Nature & Ecology

Caxton Printers

Signed by Marshall on half=title. Owner last name inked inside front cover. This copy is clean, fresh, nice.

Red Hole in Time (ESSAYS ON THE AMERICAN WEST)

History

Americas

Texas A & M Univ Pr

Escalante Canyon is a red-walled hole in a geologic uplift (the Uncompahgre Plateau) in western Colorado. Pioneers surging west fell into this canyon hole the way gold nuggets get caught in the potholes of a stream. Like nuggets eddying against stone, they were shaped by the Canyon—rounded off, shattered, or tossed away, according to how they conformed or resisted. Indeed, treasure richer than gold settled into that hole in time; in the onrushing current of history the lifestyle—the Old West—settled and still survives there—in fact, in artifact, and in living memories. The tale of the canyon is a tale of struggle, change, frontier friendship, and enmity that is part of the story of the West itself: Anglo settlement; conflict between cowman, nester, and sheep man; epidemics; hardships; loneliness. Many of its stories, though, are tantalizing episodes unique to this place, laced with oddity and tragedy. Using as digging tools the camera, tape recorder, diaries, memoirs, and a hundred years of old newspapers, Marshall has mined more gold than the first prospectors ever suspected lay in that mysterious red hole.

Red Hole in Time (Volume 9) (Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest)

Texas A&M University Press

Where the Gunnison and Uncompahgre Rivers meet, so too have the real life stories and myths of the Native Americans, Spanish gold-seekers, French fur traders, white settlers, infamous outlaws, and the many others who have attempted to lay their claim to the region.In Where Rivers Meet, Muriel Marshall returns to western Colorado, the stomping grounds for her previous book, Red Hole in Time, to unearth the rich local lore. More than rural in its appeal, this story of life at the confluence of the tumultuous Gunnison and the tranquil Uncompahgre Rivers is a meditation on the history and irresistible appeal of the American West. Here, ancient stone circles hold the mysteries of human prehistory overlooking the two rivers. Utes, who once eked out a pitiable existence from the inhospitable land but came to dominate the region as great horsemen and warriors, prized the confluence as sacred intertribal meeting grounds. At the rivers, the paths of would-be Spanish conquerors inexplicably came to a halt—then reversed. Uncle Dick Wootton’s Old West legend as trapper and Indian wrestler extraordinaire grew. And literally before the dust of vacating Utes had settled, squatters rushed into the river valley, drawn by the promise of virgin lands and the challenge of taming two rivers for farming and industry. Great floods and other hardships would remind them of the limits to pioneer ambition.In her casual style, refreshing for its wit and sharp insight, Muriel Marshall tells the story of human struggle and folly in a region that beguiles visitors with its beauty and defies the order imposed by an encroaching civilization—the essential conflict in the American West that in many ways continues today. Her story drops the names of the many who came to make their mark in the confluence—in fact and in legend—and the many who passed through, leaving a lasting impression on the region before riding off into American myth. Marshall successfully channels into narrative the powerful storytelling current that underlies old newspaper reportage, pioneer memoir, and personal interview. The result is an inviting and invigorating dip into a tale of a people and a place.

Where Rivers Meet: Lore from the Colorado Frontier (Volume 14) (Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest)

Where Rivers Meet: Lore from the Colorado Frontier (The Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest, No. 14)

The Awesome 'Dobie Badlands (the locals never call them "adobe") skirt the base of mountain ranges in Utah, New Mexico and Arizona, but the most fascinating area is found along the Gunnison River in Colorado. Here they push and twist in "pure abstract art form." Author Muriel Marshall explains the geology, gives photographic hints, describes the flora, tells us of people who lived here and makes us aware that much more has happened than we could ever imagine in what some would call "wasteland."

The Awesome 'Dobie Badlands

Western Reflections Pub Co

Uncompahgre tells about one of Colorado's little visited, yet magnificent scenic routes. The Uncompahgre Plateau is a flat-topped mountain -- Colorado's largest in terms of square feet. It extends from Grand Junction to Ridgway with nearly 2,000 square miles of slashing canyons, weird geology, lush trees, and vast horizons.

Uncompahgre: A Guide to the Uncompahgre Plateau

Western Reflections Publishing Co.

Marshall has created the definitive book on Grand Mesa, the large table-top mountain which dominates the Grand Junction, Colorado skyline. She shares details about Grand Mesa's geological origins and history, covers the edible as well as the just plain beautiful plants, the big and little beasts and the people -- including the man who brought a herd of only bulls to the mesa and then complained when he didn't get any calves. The mesa, dotted with more than 300 lakes, offers fishing and boating in the summer as well as skiing and snowmobiling in the winter.

Island in the Sky: The Story of Grand Mesa

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

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