Contents
Page [Preface] XI [History of the Monument] 1 [Early history of the region] 5 [Prehistoric people] 5 [Late arrivals] 10 [Early settlement] 10 [The Brown-Stanton river expedition] 11 [Kodel’s gold mine] 12 [Recent cave dweller] 13 [Artesian wells] 14 [Geographic setting] 16 [The geologic story begins] 17 [Ancient rocks and events] 24 [A great gap in the rock record] 26 [The age of reptiles] 27 [Early landscape] 28 [Ancient sand dunes] 29 [The rains came] 32 [Another gap in the rock record] 35 [The sea to the west] 39 [Deposits and events east of the sea] 39 [Dinosaurs roam the Monument] 47 [Dinosaurs on the move] 53 [Yet another gap in the rock record] 54 [Peat bogs] 55 [The sea covers the Plateau] 56 [The sea’s final retreat] 56 [End of the dinosaurs] 60 [The age of mammals] 61 [Early deposits and events] 63 [Lake Uinta] 63 [The mountains rise again] 64 [Nearby lava flows] 71 [Ancestral Colorado River] 72 [Piracy on the high plateaus] 72 [The age of man] 76 [The ice age] 77 [Capture of East Creek] 78 [Canyon cutting] 78 [A look into the future] 83 [How to see the Monument] 85 [Trips through and around the Monument] 88 [From Grand Junction through the Redlands to the West Entrance of the Monument] 88 [From Fruita to the West Entrance of the Monument] 96 [Through the Monument from West to East Entrances] 97 [From the East Entrance to Grand Junction] 118 [Through Glade Park from the northwest arm of Ute Canyon to Columbus Canyon] 119 [From Glade Park to Grand Junction via the Little Park Road] 121 [Résumé of geologic history and relation to other National Parks and Monuments in the Colorado Plateau] 125 [Acknowledgments] 130 [References] 131 [Additional reading] 133 [Index] 135