The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon (93 page)

There’s This River: Grand Canyon Boatman Stories
(Sadler, ed.),
353
,
383

Thomas, John,
287
–88,
291
–92,
294
–96,
339
,
384

Emerald Mile
pursued by,
315
–16

Emerald Mile
seen entering Crystal by,
297
–98,
299
–300,
306
,
383

at Grua’s hearing,
337
–40

Park Service called by,
306
–7

Thoreau, Henry David,
89
,
181
,
335

Thunderbird Lodge,
249

Thybony, Scott,
246

Ticaboo,
96
,
173
,
352

Time and the River Flowing
(Leydet),
85

Tincanebits Canyon,
324

Tinian Island,
347

Tlaxcalan Indians,
19

Toroweap Overlook,
133

Tour West,
251
–67,
300
,
315

trade winds,
181

Tucson, Ariz.,
78
,
79
,
224

Tuna Creek Rapid,
261
,
300

Tuolumne Meadows,
184

turbulence,
206
,
227
,
244
,
288
–90

Turner, Frederick Jackson,
31

Turquoise rapid,
106

Tusayan,
21

Twain, Mark,
34
,
106

24.5 Mile rapid,
284

21 Mile rapid,
284

Udall, Morris,
86
–87

Udall, Stewart,
78
–79,
80
,
85
,
86
,
87

Uinta Indian Reservation,
41

Uinta Mountains,
36

Ungricht, Elizabeth,
381

Ungricht, Gary,
381

uniformitarians,
117
–18

Union Pacific,
59
,
184

Unkar rapid,
106
,
175

Upper Colorado Basin,
329

Upper Granite Gorge,
104
,
288
–90,
309
,
329

Upset rapid,
106
,
109
,
268

Ussher, James,
117
n

vacuum bubbles,
211
–12

Vale of Rhondda,
96
,
352

Vanuatu,
347

Vasey’s Paradise,
285

Vermillion Cliffs,
274

Vickers, Robert,
185

Vishnu schist,
2
,
27
,
45
–46,
104
,
124
,
287
,
311
,
322

Volga River,
67

Vulcan’s Anvil,
132
,
316

Wall Street Journal,
87

Waltenberg rapid,
103
,
175

Wasatch Mountains,
186

Washington, George,
22

Washington Post,
50
,
86

water:

properties of,
205
–6

vacuum bubbles in,
211
–12

Watkins, Arthur,
75
,
76

Webb, Robert H.,
373

Wert, Bill,
252
,
254
–55,
257
,
262
,
264
,
266
,
269
,
302
,
315
,
329

Wert, Ellen,
252
,
254
–55,
257
,
265
,
266

Western Area Power Administration,
10

Western River Guides Association,
121

Westwater Canyon,
188

Whale Rock (boulder),
109

White, Dick,
9
,
11
,
189

called to Glen Canyon Dam emergency,
200
,
201

flying debris witnessed by,
201
,
213

and spillway discharge faltering,
226

White, E. B.,
139

White, Georgie,
245
–47,
266
,
279
,
295
,
309

White, James,
367

Whitehall boats,
42
,
46

Whitmore Wash,
319

Whitney, Mount,
70

Whittaker, Jim,
91

Wilderness and the American Mind
(Nash),
319
–20

Wild Sheep rapid,
132

Williams, Andy,
91

Williams, Ariz.,
269

Williams, Gerry,
185
–87

Lake Powell reports issued by,
197

runoff estimated by,
214

Wind in the Willows, The
(Grahame),
102
,
141

Wolfe, Thomas,
179
,
281
,
318

Workman, Tom,
174
,
270
,
276

World War II,
70
–72,
73
–74,
162
,
203
,
211
,
370

Worster, Donald,
34

Wyoming Territory,
34

Yampa River,
142

Yangtze River,
67

Yellowstone National Park,
22

Yellowstone River,
41
,
65

Yemen,
219

Yenisei River,
192
n

Yoda (char.),
293

Yosemite National Park,
22

Young, Brigham,
48
,
141

Zambezi River,
67

Zemach, Charles,
278

Zoroaster granite,
2
,
256

Zoroaster rapid,
106
,
290

Zuñis,
20
–21

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