Introduction : an American occidentalism : the archaeology of a space -- Send out a rainbow : making Rainbow Bridge a Navajo place -- "Discovering" Rainbow Bridge for modern America -- The storehouse of unlived years : Zane Grey and the modern old West -- John Ford and Monument Valley : the production of a mythical national space -- Last notes of the canyon wren : saving a remnant of nature at Rainbow Bridge -- Salting the scenery : modern tourists in the modern landscape -- Conclusion : artifacts in the museum of a modern American space