GUNNISON

river, 180 mi (290 km) long, rising in W central Colo. and flowing SW, W, and NW to the Colorado River at Grand Junction. It flows through magnificent canyons, notably the Black Canyon of the Gunnison, a national park. Gunnison Tunnel, c.5 mi (8 km) long, was built between 1905 and 1909 to divert the river's water to the Uncompahgre Valley for irrigation.

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books on: Gunnison  - 342 results

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The Ute Indians of Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico
Book by Virginia Mcconnell Simmons; University Press of Colorado, 2000
Subjects: Ute Indians--Government Relations, Ute Indians--History, Ute Indians--Social Life And Customs
...Utah, and in Colorados Moffat, Routt, Gunnison, Fremont, and Las Animas Counties. Undiscovered...Indian legends. The mighty forces of the Gunnison and Colorado Rivers join at Grand Junction...like the San Juans, lie between the Gunnison Valley on the south and the famous Maroon...
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Forgotten Kingdom: The Mormon Theocracy in the American West, 1847-1896
Book by David L. Bigler; Utah State University Press, 1998
Subjects: Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints--West (U.S.)--History--19th Century, Mormon Church--West (U.S.)--History--19th Century, West (U.S.)--Church History--19th Century
...Walker War-- Raid on Fort Bridger-- Gunnison Massacre-- Indian Grievances Continue...87 Death of Walker-- The Gunnison Trial-- The Indian Missions--Elk Mountain...News, April 16, 1853, 2. 13 Gunnison, The Mormons, or Latter-day Saints...
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French Fur Traders and Voyageurs in the American West
Book by Leroy R. Hafen; University of Nebraska Press, 1997
Subjects: French Americans--West (U.S.)--Biography, French--West (U.S.)--Biography, Fur Traders--West (U.S.)--Biography, Trappers--West (U.S.)--Biography, West (U.S.)--History--To 1848--Biography
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Utah, a Guide to the State
Book by Utah Writers' Program (Utah); Hastings House, 1941
Subjects: Utah, Utah--Description And Travel--Guide-Books
...other fruits. One of the largest, if not the largest, colonies of the great white pelican, a diminishing species, is on Gunnison and Bird islands in Great Salt Lake. They sometimes fly 100 miles or more from the rookery for their food. Probably the...
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High Altitude Energy: A History of Fossil Fuels in Colorado
Book by Lee Scamehorn; University Press of Colorado, 2002
Subjects: Fossil Fuels--Colorado--History--19th Century, Fossil Fuels--Colorado--History--20th Century
...mountains, and eventually Delta, Garfield, Gunnison, La Plata, Pitkin, and Routt beyond the...in the Uinta region, particularly in Gunnison County. The output, while never large...Delta County), Somerset (Delta and Gunnison Counties), Crested Butte (Gunnison County...
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journal articles on: Gunnison  - 40 results

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The Use of State Instream Flow Laws for Federal Lands: Respecting State Control While Meeting Federal Purposes
Journal article by Adell Louise Amos; Environmental Law, Vol. 36, 2006
Subjects: Streamflow--Laws, regulations and rules, Water resource management--Public participation, Water rights--Laws, regulations and rules, Water--Management, Water--Public participation
...degree." (77) For Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, the minimum amount to...water rights for Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park where the district court...instream flows for the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park. (150) In 1933, President...
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Alfred Packer's World: Risk, Responsibility, and the Place of Experience in Mountain Culture, 1873-1907
Journal article by Diana Di Stefano; Journal of Social History, Vol. 40, 2006
Subjects: Gold miners--History, Gold miners--Influence, Packer, Alfred--History, Packer, Alfred--Influence
...appeared at the Los Pinos Indian Agency near Gunnison, Colorado. Asking for a drink of whiskey...Packer. This time his trial took place in Gunnison, after Packers lawyers requested a change...Undoubtedly they hoped that emotions in Gunnison would not run so high. Packer pled not...
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Carpetbaggers, Reprobates, and Liars: Federal Judges and the Utah War (1857-58)
Journal article by Thomas G. Alexander; The Historian, Vol. 70, 2008
Subjects: Buchanan, James (American president)--Powers and duties, Federal court judges--Powers and duties, Mormons--History, Mountain Meadows Massacre, 1857, President of the United States--Powers and duties, United States history, United States. Army--History, Utah Expedition, 1857-1858, Utah--History
...Indians accused of murdering John W. Gunnison and his exploring party outraged Kinney...governor, although after the decision in the Gunnison murder cases, he favored the appointment...complained about the jury decision in the Gunnison murder case, which he attributed to priesthood...
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Attacking Slavery from Within: The Making of the Impending Crisis of the South
Journal article by David Brown; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 70, 2004
Subjects: Crimes against humanity--History, Impending Crisis of the South (Essay)--Criticism and interpretation, Slavery--History
...presidential nominee John C. Fremont, Helper met William Gunnison. Gunnison was a noted opponent of slavery and longtime Whig...becoming the fiftieth member shortly after meeting Gunnison. (50) This was a critical period in Helpers intellectual...
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Utah's Great Salt Lake: A Complex Environmental-Societal System*
Journal article by Daniel Bedford; The Geographical Review, Vol. 95, 2005
Subjects: Environmental movement--Reports, Environmentalism--Reports, Great Salt Lake, Lakes--Usage
...salt extraction was made by Lt. J. W. Gunnison, a member of Capt. Howard Stansburys...both. For example, the salinity of the Gunnison Bay area of the Great Salt Lake is high...into two units, a northern arm known as "Gunnison Bay" and a southern arm known as "Gilbert...
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A Rocky Mountain High: A Summer Visit to Butte, Colorado
Magazine article by Stephen Gorman; World and I, Vol. 19, June 2004
Subjects: Crested Butte, Colorado--Description and travel, Crested Butte, Colorado--History
...purchased a couple of airline tickets to Gunnison, Colorado, the gateway to Crested Butte...wilderness, while Crested Butte and nearby Gunnison were settled as railroad hubs and supply...camps disappeared. Crested Butte and Gunnison survived to become regional cattle, coal...
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No Art for Oil: It's Sadly Ironic That a Work of Art Designed to Critique the Commercialization of Art and Nature Is Threatened by Oil Exploration in the Great Salt Lake
Magazine article by Kriston Capps; The American Prospect, Vol. 19, April 2008
Subjects: Art--Social aspects, Art--United States, Petroleum industry--Influence
...Point, on the northeast end of the lakes Gunnison Bay, would become the home of his most...exploratory wells on its land leases in Gunnison Bay, some five miles southwest from Rozel...shrimp, that is mobilizing protest. "Gunnison Bay is unique in its salinity and its...
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Word Fugitives
Magazine article by Barbara Wallraff; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 298, October 2006
Subjects: Fugitives (Literary movement)--Terminology
...May a woman described her husband as a "pack rat" and asked for a word for someone, like her, with the opposite tendency. M. Gunnison Collins, of New York City, wrote, "Having for years resented the unsavory implications of pack rat I relish the chance to label...
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Letters
Magazine article; The Nation, Vol. 272, June 11, 2001
...Lets just paraphrase Foucault and say that this is the kind of writing that gives bullshit a bad name. STEVE HINCHCLIFF Gunnison, Colo. * I am sympathetic with Win McCormacks applying poststructural analysis to the presidential election, but he makes...
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Correspondence
Magazine article; Insight on the News, Vol. 15, November 15, 1999
...forefront with many of your articles. I ask, should we just cancel the primaries and go on with the coronation? Lorene Rutherford Gunnison, Colo. Dam Removal Would Help Taxpayers and Local Business In "Those Dammed Fish in Troubled Waters" Oct. 4-11, author...
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For Snow Fun, This Part of Colorado Is a Beaut
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), December 4, 2005
...equation: Colorado + snow sports + kids = Gunnison-Crested Butte. Parents, on the other...Kids Fly Free + Jan. 2 to Feb. 16 = Gunnison-Crested Butte, Colo. The snow is falling...Airlines Kids Fly Free! promotion to the Gunnison-Crested Butte Regional Airport, valid...
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Newest National Park Greeted by Residents, Politicians Alike
Newspaper article by Valerie Richardson; The Washington Times, October 24, 1999
Subjects: Campbell, Ben Nighthorse
...alike by Valerie Richardson GUNNISON NATIONAL PARK, Colo. - Its not as big...Yellowstone. But the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park managed to win national...ceremony also marked the dedication of the Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area, a 57...
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Colorado's Last Great Ski Town Rolls out the Red Carpet for Kids
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), December 31, 2006
Subjects: Children, Ski areas
...trip to the fun capital of flurries: Gunnison-Crested Butte, Colo. A painless detox...dose of clean mountain air, a trip to Gunnison-Crested Butte is fine for the whole family...444-8151 or visit www.skiwithkim.com. The Gunnison-Crested Butte Tourism Association is...
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Weekender.Travel: Rodeo Ga-Ga; JANE KERR GOT ROPED INTO A WILD WEST BREAK
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), January 15, 2005
...expect the annual cowboy rodeo and fair in Gunnison, Colorado, to be postponed or even cancelled...points. The Cattlemans Days rodeo at Gunnison County is not the biggest on the circuit...The prelude to Cattlemans Days is the Gunnison Country Western Heritage Days Chuck Wagon...
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Ernest M. Smith
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), June 9, 2005
...A memorial service for Ernest M. Smith, 86, is planned for 11 a.m. Saturday, June 18, at Bethany Baptist Church, 6700 W. Gunnison, Harwood Heights, with Pastor Rob Nelson and Daniel Anderson participating. He died Monday, June 6, 2005, at Windsor Park Manor...
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encyclopedia articles on: Gunnison  - 8 results

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Gunnison
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
GUNNISON river, 180 mi (290 km) long, rising in W central Colo. and flowing SW, W, and NW to the Colorado River at Grand Junction. It flows through magnificent canyons, notably the Black Canyon of the Gunnison , a national park. Gunnison Tunnel, c.5 mi (8 km) long, was built between 1905 and 1909 to divert the rivers water to the Uncompahgre...
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Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BLACK CANYON OF THE GUNNISON NATIONAL PARK 30,300 acres (12,272 hectares), W central Colorado...named for the sheer, dark-colored walls carved by the unspoiled Gunnison River. The narrow canyon is so deep (as much as 2,660 ft/811 m...
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Uncompahgre
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...in the San Juan Mts., SW Colo., and flowing NW past Montrose to the Gunnison River at Delta. Its waters are used for irrigation. Gunnison Tunnel diverts water from the Gunnison River to the Uncompahgre valley. ____________________ Copyright...
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Grand Junction
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
GRAND JUNCTION city (1990 pop. 29,034), seat of Mesa co., W Colo., at the junction of the Gunnison and Colorado rivers; inc. 1891. The shipping and processing center of a large ranch and irrigated farm region, it also serves the...
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National Parks and Monuments
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...park in 1980. Black Canyon of the Gunnison NP W Colo. 1933 30,300 (12,272) Deep, narrow canyon of the Gunnison River, named for its dark-colored...reservoirs in the upper Black Canyon of the Gunnison. Cuyahoga Valley RA NE Ohio...
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