John Wesley Powell

Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and Its Tributaries: Explored in 1869, 1870, 1871, and 1872, Under the Direction of the Secretary of the John Wesley Powell

Publisher Marketing: Title: Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and its tributaries: explored in 1869, 1870, 1871, and 1872, under the direction of the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Author: John Wesley PowellPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U. S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more. Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more. Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP00384500CollectionID: CTRG10169780-BPublicationDate: 18750101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: J. W. Powell in charge. The present report does not include a narrative of the second descent of the river in 1871-1872, a detailed account of which may be found in F. S. Dellenbaugh's A canyon voyage, New York, 1908. Chapters 1-9 of pt. 1, with 6 chapters added, were published later (Meadville, Pa., 1895) under title: Canyons of the Colorado, by J. W. Powell. Collation: xi, 291 p., [66] leaves of plates: ill.; 30 cm Contributor Bio:  Powell, John Wesley John Wesley Powell (1834-1902) was a professor of geology and director of the U. S. Geological Survey. Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) was the author of numerous works of fiction and non-fiction, including the National Book Award-winning "The Spectator Bird" and "Angle of Repose," which won the Pulitzer Prize.