On the Edge of Splendor
Exploring Grand Canyon’s Human Past
Douglas W. Schwartz
Between 1967 and 1970, the School of American Research conducted surveys and excavated more than thirty Pueblo ruins in the Grand Canyon and on its North Rim. The reports on this project make up the Grand Canyon Archaeological Series. The author’s research included major surveys and excavations in several crucial regions of the Grand Canyon. Written for a general audience, this book alternates between insightful accounts of Schwartz’s personal experiences in the canyon and explorations of the lives and cultures of its early and late inhabitants.
1989. 80 pp., 13 color photographs, 25 black-and-white illustrations, maps, 8.5 x 11
Contributors: Douglas W. Schwartz
—Midwest Book Review
- Beginnings in Wonder and Curiosity
- What Powell Discovered
- Seeking the Canyon Magicians
- The Canyon’s Last Hunters and Gatherers
- First Encounter at Red Butte
- Working with the Havasupais
- Searching for the Canyon Anasazi
- Hiking to the Sipapuni
- On the Edge of Splendor