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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West Paperback - 1992
by Wallace Stegner
The author recounts the successes and frustrations of John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of Indian tribes of the American Southwest. "No library of western/southwestern materials can be without this book. . . ".-- Books of the Southwest.
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In this book Wallace Stegner recounts the sucesses and frustrations of John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of Indian tribes of the American Southwest. A prophet without honor who had a profound understanding of the American West, Powell warned long ago of the dangers economic exploitation would pose to the West and spent a good deal of his life overcoming Washington politics in getting his message across. Only now, we may recognize just how accurate a prophet he was.
"This book goes far beyond biography, into the nature and soul of the American West. It is Stegner at his best, assaying an entire era of our history, packing his pages with insights as shrewd as his prose." Ivan Doig
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- Title Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
- Author Wallace Stegner
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 496
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, New York
- Date 1992-03-01
- Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
- ISBN 9780140159943 / 0140159940
- Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 7.6 x 4.9 x 1.1 in (19.30 x 12.45 x 2.79 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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- Chronological Period: 1851-1899
- Cultural Region: Southwest U.S.
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Library of Congress subjects West (U.S.) - History, Scientists - United States - Biography
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 81023090
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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- Outside, 11/01/2009, Page 48
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