Table of Contents
Bryce Canyon Impressions
Greer K. Chesher
We Are Still Here
Glendora Homer
Part I. Invisible Geographies: Bryce Canyon, 1860–1900
Greer K. Chesher
1. This is a Place of Reverence (2016)
Timothy C. Begay
2. Military Reconnaissance in Southern Utah (1866)
James Andress and Franklin Benjamin Woolley, Edited by C. Gregory Crampton
3. Climbing the Paunsaugunt Plateau (1870)
John Wesley Powell
4. Diary of Almon Harris Thompson in Bryce (1873)
Almon Harris Thompson
5. Earliest Known Non-Indigenous Descriptions of Bryce Canyon (1875)
G. M. Wheeler, G. K. Gilbert, T. C. Bailey, Clarence E. Dutton
6. Reconsider the Map (2024)
Jim Enote
7. Among My Memories (1937)
John H. Davies with Shelley Dawson Davies
8. A Brief Sketch of the Life of Ebenezer Bryce (1830–1913)
Layton J. Ott with Maurice Cope
9. A Life Not of Their Choice: The Kaibab Paiute after “Discovery” (1976)
Richard W. Stoffle and Michael J. Evans
10. This Place, Here, Was Our Sacred Ground (2016)
Ernestine Lehi
Part II. Layered Chorographies: Bryce Canyon, ca. 1915–Present
Greer K. Chesher
11. You're Native for a Purpose (2016)
Mary Lee Longhair
12. Scenic Wonders of Southern Utah (1916)
J. J. Dill, A.K.A. J. W. Humphrey
13. The Temples of the Gods (1917)
Arthur W. Stevens
14. The Temple of the Gods (1918)
Le Roy Jeffers
15. Utah's New Wonderland: Bryce Canyon, One of Nature's Masterpieces in Sculpture and Coloring (1918)
Oliver J. Grimes
16. This Is Our Heaven (2016)
Leigh Kuwanwisiwma
17. Stephen Mather: The National Park Service, Bryce, and Art (2024)
Alan Petersen
18. The Rock Is the Camera (2018)
Charley Bulletts
19. Proclamation--Bryce Canyon National Monument (1923)
Warren G. Harding
20. Bryce Canyon and Scenic Southern Utah (1924)
Congressman Louis C. Cramton
21. Pahute Indian Home Lands (1933)
William R. Palmer
22. Bryce Canyon in Storm (1930)
Maurice Cope
23. We Are a Very Proud Tribe (2016)
Alvin J. Longhair
24. Nature Carves Fantasies in Bryce Canyon (1958)
William Belknap Jr.
25. Passing on Tradition and Culture (2016)
Charley Bulletts
Part III. Inner Topographies: Art, Science, Spirit
Greer K. Chesher
26. Feeding the Mountain (2016)
Brenda Drye
27. Highway 12 (2005)
Christian Probasco
28. 100 Years of Bryce Canyon National Park and 100 Million Years of Time--Including Dinosaurs! (2023)
Tut Tran
29. Behind the Rim: The Missing Animals of Bryce (2000)
Greer K. Chesher
30. My People Were Very Spiritual (2016)
Valantinus Parashonts
31. Fabric Art (1926)
H. R. Mallinson and Co. and Walter Mitschke
32. Bryce Canyon: Under the Rim (undated)
Joan Coles
33. Mountain Sheep Dance (2016)
Clarence “Beans” John
34. Canyons, Colours, and Birds: An Interview with Olivier Messiaen (1979)
Olivier Messiaen and Harriet Watts
35. Bryce Canyon Translation: Ansel Adams, Max Ernst, and the Representation of a Most Unique National Park (2026)
James R. Swensen
36. Reconnect Back to Our Ancestors (2016)
Octavius Seowtewa
37. A Western Journal (1938)
Thomas Wolfe
38. What Used to Be: A Personal Experience (1975)
Everett L. Huizenga
39. We Are Still Here (2023)
Joe Weber
Acknowledgments
Bryce Canyon Timeline
Notes
Further Reading
Bibliography
