Powell of the Colorado /
"In the years following the Civil War, one great region of the United States remained as a challenge to explorers and geographers -- the vast unmapped area of the canyon country and the roaring rapids-infested Colorado River. This is the life story of Major John Welsey Powell, who organized and...
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Princeton [N.J.] :
Princeton University Press,
1951.
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| Series: | Princeton legacy library.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- 1830-1846 Wilderness bound
- 1846-1853 Prairie farmer
- 1853-1861 Illinois schoolmaster
- 1861-1865 An arm for union
- 1865-1867 Up Pike's Peak
- 1868 Across the Continental Divide
- 1869 Preparations at Green River
- 1869 First expedition down the Colorado
- 1869-1870 Among the Cliff Dwellers
- 1871 Second expedition down the Colorado
- 1872 Seeking federal support
- 1873 A special commission among the Utes
- 1873-1876 A new concept of the canyon country
- 1877-1878 A proposal for reform of the Land Acts
- 1878-1879 Consolidation of the surveys
- 1879-1881 The bureau of ethnology
- 1881-1884 Double duty
- 1884-1887 The survey and science in America
- 1888-1891 The irrigation survey
- 1886-1891 Life in Washington
- 1890-1894 The survey under fire
- 1894-1895 A philosophy of science
- 1896-1898 Haven
- 1898-1901 Truth and error
- 1902 The last days.
