Color photos of the Escalante and the Paria river canyons and the adjacent plateau into which these rivers, with the help of rain & wind, have sculpted surreal, brightly colored galleries. The text by Charles Bowden deals with Mormon heroes, the Hole-in-the-Rock migration, and with John D. Lee, infamous for his part in the Mountain Meadows Massacre.

From the back of the case: "Southern Paiute traditional lands contain more than 600 miles of the Colorado River, spanning from the Kaiparowits Plateau in the north to Blythe, California in the south. The Southern Paiute Consortium is an entity created in 1993 by and for its member tribes to uphold Southern Paiutes' responsibility to protect and manage all that is within this region. This film describes Southern Paiute connections to the Colorado River...