Volume 45, Number 17 · November 5, 1998
Vivacious Ghost
By William H. McNeill
How the Canyon Became Grand: A Short History
by Stephen J. Pyne
Viking, 199 pp., $24.95
Virtually every schoolchild in the United States knows about the Grand Canyon by sixth grade or so; and as charts in the back of Stephen Pyne's new book tell us, between three and five million tourists (most of them from the US) now visit the place annually to see for themselves, and more than twenty thousand raft through the canyon each year. So the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River is, indeed, an American icon, as Pyne calls it—a national symbol, but of what?
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