Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West by Bernard DeVoto, Wallace Stegner

Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West

Bernard DeVoto, Wallace Stegner

438 pages • first pub 1954 (editions)

nonfiction biography history adventurous slow-paced
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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. ...

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