Beyond the Hundredth Meridian : John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
(2011)
By:
Stegner, Wallace
Nonfiction
eAudiobook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Blackstone Publishing, 2011
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EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 audio file (17hr., 06 min.)) : digital
ISBN/ISSN
9781982496289 MWT10025381, 1982496282 10025381
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Read by Mark Bramhall
Pulitzer Prize winner Wallace Stegner recounts the remarkable career of Major John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of the Southwest Indian tribes. This classic work is a penetrating and insightful study of the Powell's career, from the beginning of the Powell Survey, in which Powell and his men famously became the first to descend the Colorado River, to his eventual ouster from the Geological Survey. In masterful prose, Stegner details the expedition, as well as the philosophies and ideas that drove Powell
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