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ISBN 13 : 9780883940129
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Down the Colorado written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Wesley Powell
Publisher : Bristol Park Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Down the Colorado written by John Wesley Powell and published by Bristol Park Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Wesley Powell
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ISBN 13 : 9780049170049
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Down the Colorado: Diary of the First Trip Through the Grand Canyon, 1869 written by John Wesley Powell and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Dolnick
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006176034X
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)
Download or read book Down the Great Unknown written by Edward Dolnick and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 men set out from Green River Station, Wyoming Territory down the Colorado in four wooden rowboats. Ninety-nine days later, six half-starved wretches came ashore near Callville, Arizona. Lewis and Clark opened the West in 1803, six decades later Powell and his scruffy band aimed to resolve the West’s last mystery. A brilliant narrative, a thrilling journey, a cast of memorable heroes—all these mark Down the Great Unknown, the true story of the last epic adventure on American soil.
Author : Eliot Porter
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Down the Colorado written by Eliot Porter and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred years ago John Wesley Powell set out to explore the Grand Canyon of the Colorado - something no man had attempted before. His official report of the voyage remains one of the great adventure stories in all the literature of the American West.
Author : Deborah Kogan Ray
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374318383
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (183 download)
Download or read book Down the Colorado written by Deborah Kogan Ray and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-10-16 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the experiences of John Wesley Powell, who led the first scientific expedition down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon.
Author : John Wesley Powell
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book First Through the Grand Canyon written by John Wesley Powell and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Wesley Powell
Publisher : DigiCat
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Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Canyons of the Colorado written by John Wesley Powell and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Canyons of the Colorado" by John Wesley Powell. Published by DigiCat. DigiCat publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each DigiCat edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : John Wesley Powell
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ISBN 13 : 9781332012916
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (129 download)
Download or read book First Through the Grand Canyon written by John Wesley Powell and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from First Through the Grand Canyon: Being the Record of the Pioneer Exploration of the Colorado River in 1869-70 The Colorado River of the West is formed in southeastern Utah by the junction of the Grand and Green rivers. For hundreds of miles it flows through a series of profound chasms, in many places from 4,000 to 6,000 feet deep, and rising nearly vertically for a considerable distance above the water. These canons are from one to fifteen miles wide at the top. The most famous of them is the Marble-Grand canon (really continuous, although it goes under two names, the Marble and the Grand). Through this vast gorge the Colorado drops 2,330 feet in 283 miles, the current sometimes attaining a velocity of twenty-five miles an hour. The river itself varies in width from seventy-five feet to a quarter of a mile. In the narrowest places it has at times a depth of over 100 feet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : John Wesley Powell
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ISBN 13 : 9781436969932
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (699 download)
Download or read book First Through the Grand Canyon: Being the Record of the Pioneer Exploration of the Colorado River in 1869-70 (1915) written by John Wesley Powell and published by . This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : John F. Ross
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143128957
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book The Promise of the Grand Canyon written by John F. Ross and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A convincing case for Powell’s legacy as a pioneering conservationist.”--The Wall Street Journal "A bold study of an eco-visionary at a watershed moment in US history."--Nature A timely, thrilling account of the explorer who dared to lead the first successful expedition down the Colorado through the Grand Canyon—and waged a bitterly-contested campaign for sustainability in the West. John Wesley Powell’s first descent of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon in 1869 counts among the most dramatic chapters in American exploration history. When the Canyon spit out the surviving members of the expedition—starving, battered, and nearly naked—they had accomplished what others thought impossible and finished the exploration of continental America that Lewis and Clark had begun almost 70 years before. With The Promise of the Grand Canyon, John F. Ross tells how that perilous expedition launched the one-armed Civil War hero on the path to becoming the nation’s foremost proponent of environmental sustainability and a powerful, if controversial, visionary for the development of the American West. So much of what he preached—most broadly about land and water stewardship—remains prophetically to the point today.
Author : Michael Patrick Ghiglieri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780970097323
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (973 download)
Download or read book First Through Grand Canyon written by Michael Patrick Ghiglieri and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In these new and accurate transcriptions, long overdue, of the letters and diaries written during the expedition, the crew members emerge from the shadows to tell their stories, often differing from the account written by expedition leader John Wesley Powell"--Page 4 of cover.
Author : Mary Ann Fraser
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805055436
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (554 download)
Download or read book In Search of the Grand Canyon written by Mary Ann Fraser and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-11-15 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major John Wesley Powell and nine other men set out to explore the unmapped stretches of the Colorado River on May 24, 1869. The text is illustrated with period photographs and etchings, maps, and attractive contemporary pictures of the canyon in full color.
Author : John Wesley Powell
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (486 download)
Download or read book First Through the Grand Canyon (Expanded, Annotated) written by John Wesley Powell and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-25 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite having lost an arm in the Civil War, John Wesley Powell had one of the most extraordinary lives and careers of any American of the last half of the 19th century. His legacy and impact is felt today by all who love nature and exploration. In 1869, Powell recruited a small group of adventurers to run the Green and Colorado Rivers from Wyoming all the way through the unexplored Grand Canyon. It was an enormously perilous journey that is captured here in Powell's own words from his journal. Surviving terrifying rapids over and over, terrible heat and cold, the loss and near exhaustion of supplies, the voyagers nevertheless kept their humor and esprit, while cataloging scientific observations and their own awe at the astonishing beauty of the country. Before the end, four had left the expedition and the rest emerged as the first to scientifically explore one of America's great treasures. Grand Canyon history American explorers Adventure and travel
Author : Don Lago
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 0874175992
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (741 download)
Download or read book The Powell Expedition written by Don Lago and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Powell Expedition is a thought-provoking, nuanced work that reads at times like a detective story, and it should offer much fodder for historians." —The Wall Street Journal John Wesley Powell’s 1869 expedition down the Green and Colorado Rivers and through the Grand Canyon continues to be one of the most celebrated adventures in American history, ranking with the Lewis and Clark expedition and the Apollo landings on the moon. For nearly twenty years Lago has researched the Powell expedition from new angles, traveled to thirteen states, and looked into archives and other sources no one else has searched. He has come up with many important new documents that change and expand our basic understanding of the expedition by looking into Powell’s crewmembers, some of whom have been almost entirely ignored by Powell historians. Historians tended to assume that Powell was the whole story and that his crewmembers were irrelevant. More seriously, because several crew members made critical comments about Powell and his leadership, historians who admired Powell were eager to ignore and discredit them. Lago offers a feast of new and important material about the river trip, and it will significantly rewrite the story of Powell’s famous expedition. This book is not only a major work on the Powell expedition, but on the history of American exploration of the West.
Author : JOHN WESLEY. POWELL
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781033044940
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (449 download)
Download or read book FIRST THROUGH THE GRAND CANYON written by JOHN WESLEY. POWELL and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Culp Darrah
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ISBN 13 : 9780874809633
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (96 download)
Download or read book The Exploration of the Colorado River in 1869 and 1871-1872 written by William Culp Darrah and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diaries from Powell's initial reconnaissance of the canyons of the Green and Colorado rivers, an expedition that would prove to be the last great exploration through unknown country in the continental United States.
