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Full text of Powell's 1,000-mile expedition down the fabled Colorado in 1869. Superb account of terrain, geology, vegetation, Indians, famine, mutiny, treacherous rapids, mighty canyons, during exploration of last unknown part of continental U.S. 240 illustrations.
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John Wesley Powell completed his famous expedition down the Green and Colorado Rivers in 1869. But his life as one of America's great men of science was only just beginning. As an Indian commissioner, he became a student of the Paiute and Ute tribes, an interest that led in 1879 to the birth of the Smithsonian's Bureau of Ethnology, where he was director for 23 years. That same year he would be instrumental in the founding of the US Geological Survey, an agency which he would head just two years later. At 47 he was perhaps the most powerful and influential scientist in America. His ideas for harnessing water in the West inspired the birth of the Bureau of Reclamation and, in 1888, he joined 32 scientists and prominent Washingtonians to establish the National Geographic Society. After his death in 1902 at the age of 68, he continued to influence government science: He donated his brain to research. It's preserved today at the Smithsonian Institution.
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Full text of Powell's 1,000-mile expedition down the fabled Colorado in 1869. Superb account of terrain, geology, vegetation, Indians, famine, mutiny, treacherous rapids, mighty canyons, during exploration of last unknown part of continental U.S.
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- PublisherDover Publications Inc
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0486200949
- ISBN 13 9780486200941
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages400
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: new. First Edition. The time is 1 pm May 24 1869 The place the Green River portage in presentday Wyoming The personnel are ten Major John W Powell onearmed Civil War veteran later head of the U S Geological Survey and nine geologists geographers scouts and adventurers Their assignment to fill in the last white space on the map to explore the last great unmapped and unknown part of the continental United StatesNo man has ever descended the Colorado River some 1000 miles cut through impassable badlands It is known that there are other rivers in the area like the Dirty River and the Grand River but their interrelationships are unknown What lies along the course of the Colorado as it flows between cliffs 5000 feet high on either side Some say that there are waterfalls that dwarf Niagara others that there are impassable rapids others that the river flows underground others say that it is a smooth placid stream lined by horizonreaching fields of wild wheat No one knows not even the IndiansMajor Powell wrote the account of this remarkable expedition and his narrative is one of the great classics of exploration as thrilling as the feat itself As we follow Powells journal expanded for publication we find the ten men sailing through wild waters momentarily expecting rapids around the next bend and finding rapids throwing out drag anchors while one advanced boat tries to find throughflowing channels We see mutiny as three men refuse to face the perils any longer and desert to be massacred by the hostile Indians Famine the beans are sprouting the apples are fermenting and the flour has gone moldy Yet six men finally emerged after 95 days of peril and a new continent of experience was recordedThis is the only uncut version of Powells narrative that has been printed in the many years It even includes the full text of the later 1870 expedition along the Uinta where Powell rediscovered the Pueblo Indians It also contains Powells later reflections on the expedition omitted in other editions. Seller Inventory # DADAX0486200949
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: New. Dover Reprint. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated soft cover/FINE. Frontispiece: Author's portrait. Journals of soldier, geologist, explorer, and spirited one-armed Civil War veteran Major John Wesley Powell (1834-1902). First published 1895 under the title "Canyons of the Colorado".; this the unabridged Dover reprint of 1961. 400 pgs w/archival drawings & photos, in 15 chapters. Chronicle of his famous 1869 river trip down the Green, and Colorado Rivers, including the first passage through the Grand Canyon. Seller Inventory # 019771
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