The People The Missing Piece Of John Wesley Powell S Expeditions
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The People
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Author : Carol Ormond
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-09-04
The People written by Carol Ormond and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-04 with History categories.
NEW FULL COLOR EDITION! They should never have survived... An ignored people who, despite all odds, were instrumental in the success of John Wesley Powell's Expeditions. Immortalized by John Hillers' 116 original 1872 albumen photographs. Now the photos are preserved and this people's incredible story can be told.
Down The Colorado
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Author : Eliot Porter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
Down The Colorado written by Eliot Porter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Explorers categories.
One hundred years ago John Wesley Powell set out to explore the Grand Canyon of the Colorado - something no man had attempted before. His official report of the voyage remains one of the great adventure stories in all the literature of the American West.
The Powell Expedition
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Author : Don Lago
language : en
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Release Date : 2017-11-15
The Powell Expedition written by Don Lago and has been published by University of Nevada Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-15 with History categories.
"The Powell Expedition is a thought-provoking, nuanced work that reads at times like a detective story, and it should offer much fodder for historians." —The Wall Street Journal John Wesley Powell’s 1869 expedition down the Green and Colorado Rivers and through the Grand Canyon continues to be one of the most celebrated adventures in American history, ranking with the Lewis and Clark expedition and the Apollo landings on the moon. For nearly twenty years Lago has researched the Powell expedition from new angles, traveled to thirteen states, and looked into archives and other sources no one else has searched. He has come up with many important new documents that change and expand our basic understanding of the expedition by looking into Powell’s crewmembers, some of whom have been almost entirely ignored by Powell historians. Historians tended to assume that Powell was the whole story and that his crewmembers were irrelevant. More seriously, because several crew members made critical comments about Powell and his leadership, historians who admired Powell were eager to ignore and discredit them. Lago offers a feast of new and important material about the river trip, and it will significantly rewrite the story of Powell’s famous expedition. This book is not only a major work on the Powell expedition, but on the history of American exploration of the West.
Cleaving An Unknown World
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Author : Don D. Fowler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Cleaving An Unknown World written by Don D. Fowler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with History categories.
John Wesley Powell's journal: Colorado River exploration, 1871-1872 -- "Photographed all the best scenery": Jack Hiller's diary of the Powell expeditions, 1871-1875 -- Francis Bishop's 1871 river maps -- Dellenbaugh of the Colorado: some letters pertaining to the Powell voyages and the history of the Colorado River -- The lost journal of John Colton Sumner.
Down The Great Unknown
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Author : Edward Dolnick
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2009-03-17
Down The Great Unknown written by Edward Dolnick and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-17 with History categories.
Drawing on rarely examined diaries and journals, Down the Great Unknown is the first book to tell the full, dramatic story of the Powell expedition. On May 24, 1869 a one-armed Civil War veteran, John Wesley Powell and a ragtag band of nine mountain men embarked on the last great quest in the American West. The Grand Canyon, not explored before, was as mysterious as Atlantis—and as perilous. The ten men set out from Green River Station, Wyoming Territory down the Colorado in four wooden rowboats. Ninety-nine days later, six half-starved wretches came ashore near Callville, Arizona. Lewis and Clark opened the West in 1803, six decades later Powell and his scruffy band aimed to resolve the West’s last mystery. A brilliant narrative, a thrilling journey, a cast of memorable heroes—all these mark Down the Great Unknown, the true story of the last epic adventure on American soil.
A River Running West
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Author : Donald Worster
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2002-11-28
A River Running West written by Donald Worster and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-11-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
If the word "hero" still belonged in the historian's lexicon, it would certainly be applied to John Wesley Powell. Intrepid explorer, careful scientist, talented writer, and dedicated conservationist, Powell led the expedition that put the Colorado River on American maps and revealed the Grand Canyon to the world. Now comes the first biography of this towering figure in almost fifty years--a book that captures his life in all its heroism, idealism, and ambivalent, ambiguous humanity. In A River Running West, Donald Worster, one of our leading Western historians, tells the story of Powell's great adventures and describes his historical significance with compelling clarity and skill. Worster paints a vivid portrait of how this man emerged from the early nineteenth-century world of immigrants, fervent religion, and rough-and-tumble rural culture, and barely survived the Civil War battle at Shiloh. The heart of Worster's biography is Powell's epic journey down the Colorado in 1869, a tale of harrowing experiences, lethal accidents, and breathtaking discoveries. After years in the region collecting rocks and fossils and learning to speak the local Native American languages, Powell returned to Washington as an eloquent advocate for the West, one of America's first and most influential conservationists. But in the end, he fell victim to a clique of Western politicians who pushed for unfettered economic development, relegating the aging explorer to a quiet life of anthropological contemplation. John Wesley Powell embodied the energy, optimism, and westward impulse of the young United States. A River Running West is a gorgeously written, magisterial account of this great American explorer and environmental pioneer, a true story of undaunted courage in the American West.
Tsunami Twins
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Author : John Huffer
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2005-02
Tsunami Twins written by John Huffer and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-02 with Fiction categories.
"At the time when I saw two suns in the sky, I received a warning about two waves that would bring destruction to this place where I have left this warning." In the year AD 1054, a wise man from the Chaco Society scratched an ominous warning in rock art. More than a thousand years later, twenty-six-year-old tribal archaeologist Jon Two-Bears and professor Pamela Parker team up on a dig in the west end of the Grand Canyon. To their surprise, they uncover what appears to be an ancient warning. It predicts there will be a huge landslide in the narrows of Lake Mead that will send a freshwater tsunami downstream eighteen miles--wiping out the Hoover Dam. The inland tsunami will continue south, destroying everything in its path to the Gulf of California. Due to the seismic activity that is taking place in the Lake Mead area, it's obvious that this ancient prophecy is about to become a reality. Jon and Pamela make a valiant effort to convince people to flee to higher ground before the killer waves wipe out large areas of the southwestern United States. Will the warnings be heeded? Or will millions become victims of the tsunami twins?
Canyons Of The Colorado
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Author : John Wesley Powell
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2023-11-10
Canyons Of The Colorado written by John Wesley Powell and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-10 with Fiction categories.
"Canyons of the Colorado" by John Wesley Powell. Published by DigiCat. DigiCat publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each DigiCat edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
John Wesley Powell
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Author : R. K. Alleman
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-01-08
John Wesley Powell written by R. K. Alleman and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-08 with categories.
This factual story relates the story of one of the most extraordinary expeditions in the American West during the latter part of the19th-century. The basis of the story relates the legacy of the Civil War hero, Major John Wesley Powell, whose 1869 Green and Colorado River expedition was the first scientific expedition that surveyed the Green and Colorado rivers canyon country, starting in Green River, Wyoming and ending at the Grand Wash Cliffs (the western terminus of the Grand Canyon). Although this narrative has been told by many authors over the years, the novelty of this text is in the guise of a faux play where four principal performers recite their lines to an imaginary audience. Namely, thre three diarists who were part of the 1869 expedition, and a chorus, who, in this case, relates incidental details not divulged by the three other performers (which, includes Major Powell). As this 100-day odyssey unfolds, we hear from each diarist what happened on any given day. Remarkably, one of the diarists' (George Bradley) wrote exacting details in secret. That is, none of the other men even knew Bradley wrote those reports. As it turned out, Major Powell's journals were later published as a much larger account. That said, there were two expeditions: the inaugural 1869 exploration and the 1871-72 exploration, which he 'telescoped' into a seeming and single longer expedition. Moreover, he failed to mention the names of the crew on the second expedition. As a consequence of Powell's oversight, readers, in his time, took it for granted there was only one expedition manned by those mentioned names in the major's publications. It isn't until after the major's death at the turn of the century that readers of the heroic Powell expedition were apprised of the fact there were two different expeditions and two different crews. This book on John Wesley Powell reveals all the details, if not the machination, of the Powell saga. Moreover, the post-expedition years were the most intriguing, considering how some of the men on the first expedition griped about not getting paid for their services. Moreover, three of those men abandoned the expedition close to the end of that odyssey, whose bodies were never found. Thus, the trio marks the greatest human mystery and drama relative to the Grand Canyon, which Major Powell had bequeathed this moniker after the first expedition. (258 pages)
The Promise Of The Grand Canyon
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Author : John F. Ross
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2018-07-03
The Promise Of The Grand Canyon written by John F. Ross and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-03 with History categories.
“A convincing case for Powell’s legacy as a pioneering conservationist.”--The Wall Street Journal "A bold study of an eco-visionary at a watershed moment in US history."--Nature A timely, thrilling account of the explorer who dared to lead the first successful expedition down the Colorado through the Grand Canyon—and waged a bitterly-contested campaign for sustainability in the West. John Wesley Powell’s first descent of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon in 1869 counts among the most dramatic chapters in American exploration history. When the Canyon spit out the surviving members of the expedition—starving, battered, and nearly naked—they had accomplished what others thought impossible and finished the exploration of continental America that Lewis and Clark had begun almost 70 years before. With The Promise of the Grand Canyon, John F. Ross tells how that perilous expedition launched the one-armed Civil War hero on the path to becoming the nation’s foremost proponent of environmental sustainability and a powerful, if controversial, visionary for the development of the American West. So much of what he preached—most broadly about land and water stewardship—remains prophetically to the point today.