The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons by John Wesley Powell, Wallace Stegner

The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons

John Wesley Powell, Wallace Stegner

400 pages • first pub 1895 (view editions)

nonfiction history travel adventurous slow-paced
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The time is 1 p.m., May 24, 1869. The place: the Green River portage, in present-day Wyoming. The personnel are ten: Major John W. Powell, one-armed Civil War veteran, later head of the U. S. Geological Survey) and nine geologists, geographers, sc...

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