# How the Canyon Became Grand

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- Book: [How the Canyon Became Grand](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-j-pyne/how-the-canyon-became-grand) ([How the Canyon Became Grand.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-j-pyne/how-the-canyon-became-grand.md))
- Authors: [Stephen J. Pyne](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-j-pyne)
- Publisher: penguin_books
- ISBN: 978-01-4028-056-2
- Pages: 240
- Published: 1999-07-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Dismissed by the first Spanish explorers as a wasteland, the Grand Canyon lay virtually unnoticed for three centuries until nineteenth- century America rediscovered it and seized it as a national emblem....