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Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
1961
Physical Desc
xvii, 400 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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What started as a scientific expedition through the last uncharted territory of the continental United States turned out to be a harrowing adventure for John Wesley Powell and nine other men who set out to explore the Colorado River in 1869. Their story, recounted from Powell's journals, is as exciting today as it was when first published in 1874. Photos & line drawings.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
336 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Last Canyon tells the story of John Wesley Powell’s 1869 voyage of exploration through the Grand Canyon, the last great expedition of discovery in United States history. In this vivid novel, John Vernon intertwines two stories – that of Powell and his crew, and that of a band of Paiute Indians, known as the Shivwits, who lived on the north rim of the canyon. As the novel moves inexorably toward a violent encounter between the two groups, Vernon...
Author
Publisher
Francis Foster Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill., col. map ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Although John Wesley Powell's minister father always wanted his son to follow in his footsteps, young Wes had different plans for his future. Enraptured by the wonders of the natural world, he was determined to take the path of science. Even after losing his right arm below the elbow in battle during the Civil War, Wes would not be deterred from his dream of leading the first scientific expedition down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon....
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English
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Drawing on rarely examined diaries and journals, Down the Great Unknown is the first book to tell the full, dramatic story of the Powell expedition.
On May 24, 1869 a one-armed Civil War veteran, John Wesley Powell and a ragtag band of nine mountain men embarked on the last great quest in the American West. The Grand Canyon, not explored before, was as mysterious as Atlantis—and as perilous. The ten
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xv, 381 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An account of John Wesley Powell's expedition down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon-- which waged a bitterly-contested campaign for environmental sustainability in the American West.
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Language
English
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If the word "hero" still belonged in the historian's lexicon, it would certainly be applied to John Wesley Powell. Intrepid explorer, careful scientist, talented writer, and dedicated conservationist, Powell led the expedition that put the Colorado River on American maps and revealed the Grand Canyon to the world. Now comes the first biography of this towering figure in almost fifty years--a book that captures his life in all its heroism, idealism,...
Publisher
Utah State Historical Society
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xx, 251 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Language
English
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In 2009 the University of Utah Press and the Utah State Historical Society co-published three volumes of long out-of-print journals, letters, and other documents from John Wesley Powell’s expeditions down the Colorado River. We are proud to announce the fourth and final volume. Cleaving an Unknown World collects Powell’s journal (Smithsonian Journal of History, 1968); Jack Hillers’s diary and photographs, previously published as Photographed...
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Publisher
Git'er Done Books
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
213 p. : chiefly ill.
Language
English
Description
It took over 1000 pounds of photographic equipment hauled halfway across the continent by horse, boat, and sweat for John Wesley Powell's 1872 Expedition (including his photographer, John Hillers) to document the story of a people who should have never survived there in North America's desert southwest - the Southern Paiute Tribes.
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