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How the Canyon Became Grand: A Short History (Reprint Edition) by Stephen J. Pyne Paperback, 199 Pages, Published 1999 ISBN-10: 0-14-028056-1 / 0140280561 ISBN-13: 978-0-14-028056-2 / 9780140280562 Dismissed by the first Spanish explorers as a wasteland, the Grand Canyon lay virtually unnoticed for three centuries until nineteenth-century America rediscovered it and seized it as a national emblem. This extraordinary work of intellectual and environmental history tells two tales of the Canyon: |