Powell of the Colorado /

Powell of the Colorado / / William Culp Darrah.

In May 1869, Major John Wesley Powell, geologist, enthnologist, and geographer set out from Green River, Wyoming, with nine men and four boats to explore the forbidding canyons of the Green and Colorado Rivers in Wyoming, Utah, and Arizona, which had blocked all central travel routes to the West Coa...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
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Darrah, William Culp,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
©1951
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 2320
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Physical Description:1 online resource (460 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • 1. 1830-1846. Wilderness Bound
  • 2. 1846-1853. Prairie Farmer
  • 3. 1853-1861. Illinois Schoolmaster
  • 4. 1861-1865. An Arm for Union
  • 5. 1865-1867. Up Pike's Peak
  • 6. 1868. Across the Continental Divide
  • 7. 1869. Preparations at Green River
  • 8. 1869. First Expedition Down the Colorado
  • 9. 1869-1870. Among the Cliff Dwellers
  • 10. 1871. Second Expedition Down the Colorado
  • 11. 1872. Seeking Federal Support
  • 12. 1873. A Special Commission Among the Utes
  • 13. 1873-1876. A New Concept of the Canyon Country
  • 14. 1877-1878. A Proposal for Reform of the Land Acts
  • 15. 1878-1879. Consolidation of the Surveys
  • 16. 1879-1881. The Bureau of Ethnology
  • 17. 1881-1884. Double Duty
  • 18. 1884-1887. The Survey and Science in America
  • 19. 1888-1891. The Irrigation Survey
  • 20. 1886-1891. Life in Washington
  • 21. 1890-1894. The Survey Under Fire
  • 22. 1894-1895. A Philosophy of Science
  • 23. 1896-1898. Haven
  • 24. 1898-1901. Truth and Error
  • 25. 1902. The Last Days
  • Epilogue
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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