The promise of the Grand Canyon : John Wesley Powell's perilous journey and his vision for the American West / John F. Ross.
When John Wesley Powell became the first person to navigate the entire Colorado River, through the Grand Canyon, he completed what Lewis and Clark had begun nearly 70 years earlier--the final exploration of continental America. The son of an abolitionist preacher, a Civil War hero (who lost an arm a...
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New York, New York :
Viking,
[2018]
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| Physical Description: | xv, 381 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
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Contents:
- Introduction
- Into the cauldron
- Osage oranges and pink muckets
- Thinking bayonets
- First thoughts west
- Descent
- The canyon
- Encore
- Fighting the national surveys
- A radical idea
- Taking over Washington
- A tough opponent
- Last stand
- Epilogue.