Review: Still the Wild River Runs: Congress, the Sierra Club and the Fight to Save Grand Canyon

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Review: Still the Wild River Runs: Congress, the Sierra Club and the Fight to Save Grand Canyon By Byron E. Pearson Reviewed by Ryder W. Miller San Francisco, California, USA Byron E. Pearson. Still the Wild River Runs: Congress, the Sierra Club and the Fight to Save Grand Canyon. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2002. ISBN 0-8165-2058-5. US$45.00. Acid-free, archival-quality paper.

Just as a mountain can be a metaphor of the struggle necessary to climb to the top, or the coastline a boundary between different worlds, or a river a journey, the Grand Canyon can represent a vast barrier between groups of people. In the saga recounted in Still the Wild River Runs by Byron E. …