Messing with Maps: A lotta damn dams edition

Or the Water Buffalos' wet dream, circa 1946

The idea of damming up the Colorado River at Glen Canyon was first hatched in the early 1900s. But several locations were proposed, including one just above Lee’s Ferry and this concept, which would have been in Horseshoe Bend.

Since the days that John Wesley Powell made his 19th century journeys down the Colorado River, folks have been trying to tame a…