GLEN CANYON BEFORE LAKE POWELL: Beauty Lost in the Southwest is a consummate view of the old and new Glen Canyon environs. The old refers to the canyon's halcyon days and habitat, and the new is the inclusion of the dam and lake that covered most of the canyon's facade. Consequently, hundreds of peerless backcountry haunts were lost forever. The most celebrated of these idyllic alcoves was Cathedral in the Desert. The narrative of the book features a film-documentary of a 1959 rafting trip through Glen Canyon's interior before these consequential changes came about. The rustic 8mm movie was filmed by the acclaimed Grand Canyon author and hiker, George Steck. After meeting George and becoming friends with him, I later inherited the movie, then reformatted the fragile film into a VHS format. In time, that copy was formatted into a DVD. He called the movie "Beauty Lost" and my text is based on that historic movie. I felt the epithet was an apt title for my composition. Composed of three parts, notably, the before, during, and after phases, this informative narrative reveals what happened to Glen Canyon starting in the late 1950s. This epic transformation from a canyon to basin storage is known only by a relative few people today. It follows how most people are more familiar with the sprawling lake covering the canyon's interior. The descriptive account throughout Beauty Lost relates a thorough and objective background of both Glen Canyon realms (i.e., the chaste habit he experienced and the aftermath that became a mega-basin storage project an aquatic playground for tourists). The literal cover-up of Glen Canyon has always remained a topical environmental subject, whose diatribes and polemics fought by both sides of the Glen Canyon-Lake Powell issue continues to fuel the controversy, especially in view of Lake Powell's ongoing environmental problems, including the abrupt changes to the Grand Canyon's interior due to extremely low water temperatures caused by the dam. As a title, GLEN CANYON BEFORE LAKE POWELL states the theme of this work and comes down to the salient point this huge basin storage project was the wrong damn place to build a dam. The environmental impact over the last few decades proves this point, and not only is Lake Powell likened to an inland Dead Sea given its alarming silt accumulation, but also the ruinous changes wrought by Grand Canon's riverine corridor due to the dam cold water released from the dam. Thus, Glen Canyon's habit was sacrificed and has become a heated and topical issue over the years, where people on both sides of the issue constantly argue to either preserve the status quo of a dam and basin storage or dismantle the dam and return Glen Canyon to its original appearance, and the way Nature intended. Total page count: 285