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The Grand Canyon: Native People and Early Visitors

by Kenneth D., Jr. Shields

Human histories of the Grand Canyon

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Human histories of the Grand Canyon

More than 250 vintage images frame the Grand Canyon as a place shaped by human presence as well as natural scale. Kenneth D. Shields, Jr. covers the Hopi, Havasupai, Navajo, and Paiute communities associated with the canyon, alongside pioneers drawn by gold and the emerging tourist trade. Landmarks including El Tovar Hotel and Navajo Bridge, and conservationist figures Theodore Roosevelt and William Taft, place these histories within the region’s early tourism and preservation story. The book’s scope connects Indigenous life, settlement, and the development of visitor infrastructure in a historical survey centered on the canyon and its surrounding communities.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in the history of the Grand Canyon and the American Southwest.
  • Those exploring Indigenous communities connected to the canyon, including the Hopi, Havasupai, Navajo, and Paiute.
  • Readers interested in early tourism, conservation, and vintage historical photographs.

Themes

Indigenous historyGrand Canyon historyEarly tourismConservationHistorical photography

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Book overview

Exploring the people who shaped and survived the Grand Canyon.

Unlike appreciating America's other natural wonders such as waterfalls, glaciers, mountains, or prairies, one must struggle to absorb, assimilate, and comprehend the Grand Canyon's tremendous scale. Captured here in over 250 vintage images is the human drama of survival and coexistence in the canyon, from the native tribes who struggled with life on the rim, to the pioneers who came to foster and manipulate the early tourist industry in America's oldest natural resource. Covering the tribes that called the canyon home and the seekers who flocked to the area to find their fortune in gold and tourism, author Kenneth Shields exposes the human layers so often overlooked. Seen here are the native tribes who survived the harshest conditions of the canyon, including the Hopi, Havasupai, Navajo, and Paiute. Readers will recognize the images of popular tourist spots like the El Tovar Hotel and the Navajo Bridge, as well as the early conservationist faces of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Taft.

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