AMERICAN INDIAN ROCK ART, VOLUME 33

Tucson, AZ: American Rock Art Research Assn. , 2007. 1st Edition Printing Unknown. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. B&W photos, drawings illustrate throughout. CONDITION: NEW 2007 ARARA large paperback, first edition, no printing given. B&W photos, drawings, & charts illustrate. CONTENT: For over 6,000 years traders, hunters, and farmers visited and lived in Nine Mile Canyon in Utah. The perennial creek and springs provided year-round water for agriculture. The evidence of this long history of human habitation is a forty-mile rock gallery following Minnie Maud creek to the Green River. This corridor is one of the world's longest and most magnificent rock art panels. When the Barrett Corporation was granted permission to drill for oil and gas in Nine Mile Canyon, most of the great panels were impacted by dust and chemical from this industrial endeavor. This book seeks to save, at least via drawings and photos, what is left of this great art work. The permission to drill was given over the objections of 35,000 complaints. Wonder if I could get permission to drill next to Independence Hall. Probably not. This is a great book for those of us who love petroglyphs and want them preserved. NOTE: The negative comment is mine and mine alone.