Twelve millennia on the San Juan -- Prehistory: from Clovis hunters to corn farmers -- Navajos, Paiutes, and Utes: views of a sacred land -- Exploration and science: defining terra incognita -- Livestock: cows, feed, and floods -- Agriculture: ditches, droughts, and disasters -- City building: farming the triad -- Mining: black and yellow gold in redrock country -- he federal government: dams, tamarisk, and pikeminnows -- San Juan of the imagination: local and national values -- Visions: flowing from the sunrise or a water spigot?
