After losing part of his arm in the Civil War, John Wesley Powell's passion to explore the natural world would not be deterred and so he kept his dream of exploring the vast Colorado River and all its wonders along the way, including the ...
"A River Running West" is a gorgeously written, magisterial account of this towering figure, a true story of undaunted courage. 42 halftones. 7 maps.
His death by treachery, at a relatively young age, made the story tragic, and dime-store novelists took over where the press left off.
Bartlett , Richard Adams . " The Great Surveys in Colorado ... Lewis Henry Morgan , John Wesley Powell and Henry George : A Study in the Relation Between Nineteenth Century Intellectual Thought and Social Reform . " M.A. Thesis .
"John Wesley Powell: explorer, writer, geologist, anthropologist, land planner, bureaucrat. Which one do we focus on?" This is the question author James M. Aton poses at the beginning of his...
Ten explorers. Four boats. One Grand Canyon. MEN ON BOATS is the true(ish) history of an 1869 expedition, when a one-armed captain and a crew of insane yet loyal volunteers set out to chart the course of the Colorado River.
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.
First Footsteps in East Africa, Or, An Exploration of Harar
American geologist and explorer JOHN WESLEY POWELL (1834-1902), head of the Powell Geographic Expedition and later director of the U.S. Geological Survey, here regales us with the thrilling tale of the ten-man team and its assignment to map ...
Conquering the Great Unknown