Beyond the hundredth meridian: John Wesley Powell and the second opening of the West
19th Century Adventurers & Explorers Biography & Autobiography Expeditions & Discoveries General History John Wesley Powell Science & Technology Scientists Scientists - United States - Biography United States West (U.S.) West (U.S.) - History
Publisher: Penguin
Published: Mar 1, 1992
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Review
No library of western/southwestern materials can be without this book. . . . --Books of the Southwest
This book goes far beyond biography, into the nature and soul of the American West. It is Stegner at his best, assaying an entire era of our history, packing his pages with insights as shrewd as his prose. --Ivan Doig
Product Description
The author recounts the successes and frustrations of John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of Indian tribes of the American Southwest. "No library of western/southwestern materials can be without this book. . . ."-- Books of the Southwest.