The Colorado River Basin's importance cannot be overstated. Its
living river system supplies water to roughly forty million people,
contains Grand Canyon National Park, Bears Ears National Monument,
and wide swaths of other public lands, and encompasses ancestral
homelands of twenty-nine Native American tribes. John Wesley
Powell, a one-armed Civil War veteran, explorer, scientist, and
adept federal administrator, articulated a vision for Euro-American
colonization of the "Arid Region" that has indelibly shaped the
basin-a pattern that looms large not only in western history, but
also in contemporary environmental and social policy. One hundred
and fifty years after Powell's epic 1869 Colorado River Exploring
Expedition, this volume revisits Powell's vision, examining its
historical character and its relative influence on the Colorado
River Basin's cultural and physical landscape in modern times. In
three parts, the volume unpacks Powell's ideas on water, public
lands, and Native Americans-ideas at once innovative, complex, and
contradictory. With an eye toward climate change and a host of
related challenges facing the basin, the volume turns to the
future, reflecting on how-if at all-Powell's legacy might inform
our collective vision as we navigate a new "Great Unknown."
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