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DKos Special Diary: Archeoastronomy, Part III Of III
Star Cities I have heard the Four Corner archeoastronomy sites called. I suppose that's a good way to look at these prehistoric locales where the Ancestral Puebloans, like all other star-gazing people...
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Dkos Tour Series: Death Valley National Park, Part I of II
When you think of this national park, what comes to mind? For instance, this view:Because there's lots of these features. . .And a huge place with a seeming endless road leading into nowhere. . .And my...
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DK Tour Series: Death Valley National Park, Part II of II
Today, we continue and finish our simmering tour of the Big Valley straddling Nevada and California. This setting truly has it all, including one of the most clear and majestic celestial displays...
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DKos Special Diary: The Mythical John Wesley Powell & the 1869 Expedition,...
Introduction: For those who are interested in late 19th Century Western history, today begins an abridged account of one of America’s most outstanding explorers of the Colorado Plateau’s canyon...
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DKos Special Diary: The Mythical John Wesley Powell & the 1869 Expedition,...
John Wesley in his 1930sNote To Dkos Readers: If you are just joining me for this series of diaries on, please read the introduction in yesterday’s diary (http://www.dailykos.com/...), if not the...
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DKos Special Diary: The Mythical John Wesley Powell and the 1869 Expedition,...
Note To Dkos Readers: If you are just joining me for this series of diaries on, please read the introduction in the first diary and I recommend reading the previous diaries, as well. It will help...
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DKos Special Diary: The Mythical John Wesley Powell and the 1869 Expedition,...
Note To Dkos Readers: If you are just joining me for this series of diaries on, please read the introduction in the first diary (http://www.dailykos.com/...). I also recommend reading the ensuing...
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DKos Special Diary: The Mythical John Wesley Powell and the 1869 Expedition,...
Note To Dkos Readers: If you are just joining me for this series of diaries on, please read the introduction in the first diary (http://www.dailykos.com/...). I also recommend reading the ensuing...
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DKos Special Diary: The Mythical John Wesley Powell and the 1869 Expedition,...
A photo of Major Powell less than ten years after his final Green and Colorado rivers expedition. (But it likely was the politics and his position in same that did most of the aging!)Note To Dkos...
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DKos Special Diary: The Mythical John Wesley Powell and the 1869 Expedition,...
Note To Dkos Readers: If you are just joining me for this series of diaries on, please read the introduction in the first diary (http://www.dailykos.com/...). I also recommend reading the ensuing...
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DKos Tour Series: Capitol Reef NP
Location/Geography: Wayne, Garfield, Sevier, and Emery Counties, Utah. Area: 241,904.26 acres (978.9518 sq. km). Some 100 miles, lengthwise the ʻreefʼ is fairly narrow (378 sq. miles). Capitol Reef NP...
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DKos Special Diary: The Mythical John Wesley Powell and the 1869 Expedition,...
There's where we're going, boys! the major said pointing. . .He didn't have a map in his hand, of course, because there was hardly any mapped terrain in this part of the country, such as became the...
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(Note to this portrait and its verse: Although a popular painting at the time, Major Powell would not have approved the eulogy's import. He happened to have revered Glen Canyon and likely would have...
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DKos Special Diary: John Wesley Powell Expedition Photos (Supplement)
Recently I obtained some photos relevant to the material of these diaries. It was a bit of a late delivery but at least they got here. Nevertheless, I came up with an idea that might be a win-win...
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DKos Special Diary: The Ancestral Puebloans, Part I (The Culture)
Prologue: The previous diary posted on the Human History of the Colorado Plateau (http://www.dailykos.com/...) as well as an Archeological Timeline diary (http://www.dailykos.com/...) denote an...
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DKos Special Diary: The Ancestral Puebloans, Part II (Social Customs &...
Prologue: Continuing where yesterday’s diary left off this diary delves into the quintessence of everyday living among the Ancestral Puebloans. Namely, the communal aspects of their culture. Like all...
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DKos Tour Series: Canyon de Chelly National Monument
Location/Geography: Arizona, Apache County, the closest town is Chinle. Area: 131 square miles. Off Hwy. 191 and Route 7 (at Chinle). Defiance Plateau region. Chinle Wash separates the north and south...
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DKos Special Supplement: Hiking the Waterpocket Fold and 'The Wave'
Imagine you face or faces inserted in this image and let's get started on another virtual hiking tour. . .In case you missed it, the Capitol Reef diary brought attention to one of the truly most...
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DKos Special Supplement: The Mother Road. . .Route 66!
Howdy and who's ready for a change of pace from gripping times and then slip back to something more halcyon? Thus here goes another time travel piece, but this time we'll be going back to a little over...
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DKos Tour Series: Nine Mile Canyon (needs our help!)
What happens when a plethora of glyphs, like this sample, are being destroyed. . .by trucks passing through Nine Mile Canyon's thoroughfare. . .for the sake of insatiable fossil fuel energy outfits...
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