Word: canyon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reach Supai, Arizona, you turn off Highway 66 at Peach Springs, follow the mail truck 65 miles across the desert to the edge of the Grand Canyon, and then wind your way by packmule to the Canyon floor a mile below...
...transform the mountaineer into a middle-class American" makes my blood boil. One of the great glories of America is the wide diversity of people to be found within its borders. Homogenizing our population is deadening our culture as surely as leveling the Rocky Mountains and the Grand Canyon would ruin our scenery...
...hydroelectricity and to create water reservoirs. New York's Consolidated Edison Co. is seeking to build a storage facility on Storm King Mountain overlooking the Hudson 55 miles north of Manhattan; the Army Corps of Engineers has plans to dam Alaska's Yukon River at Rampart Canyon into a lake the size of New Jersey that could water the U.S. West Coast...
...Ralph Flores and Helen Klaben, who ingeniously contrived to survive for 50 days without food in freezing winter weather after their plane crashed in Canada. Even more ingenious were Viryl and Laura Scott, who in 1959 set off with their six children on an excursion into the Grand Canyon, foolishly turned off the main road onto a little-used sidetrack. There the car broke down. They were 50 miles from the nearest town, and the temperature was 124°. With something like a genius for self-preservation, the Scotts drank the water from their car radiator, cut up blankets...
...long as the court knows herself I'd eat somewhere else. I thought they would throw me out, but I reached for my old standby and they didn't dare." There were perils as well as pleasures. Once, while riding alone through Arizona's Skeleton Canyon, McCauley ran into a passel of Apaches. "They fired and my horse fell. I fired twice and two of them fell from their horses, but the balance was after me. As they went by in a lope I let one more of them out of his saddle. All day long...