Hundreds of publications touch on the landscape, history and issues associated with the Colorado River. The following list is offered as a sampling of the field. The list features the works of participants in the KUED documentary Glen Canyon: A Dam, Water and the West, as well as a selection of the sources used by the producers of the documentary. Contributors to the documentary are highlighted.

• Glen Canyon: An Archeological Summary
  Jesse D. Jennings, Forward by Donald Fowler
  University of Utah Press, 1998
  
  
• A Story that Stands Like a Dam: Glen Canyon and the Struggle for the Soul of the West
  Russell Martin
  Henry Holt and Company, 1989
  
  
• Call of the Colorado
  Roy Webb
  University of Idaho Press, 1994
  
  
• All My Rivers Are Gone
  Katie Lee
  Johnson Books, 1998
  
  
• The Place No One Knew
  Eliot Porter, Edited and Forward by David Brower
  Peregrine Smith Books, 1988
  
  
• There Was a River
  Bruce Berger
  University of Arizona Press, 1994
  
  
• The Ghosts of Glen Canyon: The History Beneath Lake Powell
  C. Gregory Crampton
  Publisher's Place, 1986
  
  
• Joint Hearing on the Sierra Club's Proposal to Drain Lake Powell
  Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands and Subcommittee on Water and Power of the Committee on Resources
  House of Representatives, September 24, 1997
  U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1998
  
  
• Grand Canyon: A Century of Change
  Robert H. Webb
  
  
• Operation of Glen Canyon Dam: Colorado River Storage Project
  Final Environmental Impact Statement
  U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1995
  
  
• Lake Powell: The Jewel of the Colorado
  (including text and photographs by Floyd Dominy)
  U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation
  U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1965
  
  
• The Colorado River: A Comprehensive Report on the Development of Water Resources
  U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation
  U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C, 1947
  
  
• Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water
  Marc Reisner
  Viking Press, 1986
  
  
• Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the American West
  Wallace Stegner
  Houghton Mifflin, 1954
  
  
• The Exploration of the Colorado and Its Canyons
  John Wesley Powell
  Dover Press, 1961
  
  
• Empires in the Sun: The Rise of the New American West
  Peter Wiley and Robert Gottlieb
  Putnam, 1982
  
  
• The Monkey Wrench Gang
  Edward Abbey
  Lippincott, 1975
  
  
• Glen Canyon Dam Souvenir Guide Book
  Stan Jones
  Sun Country Publications, various publication years