Discovering Dinosaurs in the Old West: The Field Journals of Arthur
Lakes
by Michael F. Kohl (Editor), et al
Expeditions to Colorado and Wyoming 1877 to 1880
Listed under Paleontology
Hell or High Water: James White's Disputed Passage through Grand
Canyon, 1867
by Eilean Adams
Listed under Grand Canyon
Down
the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy
Through the Grand Canyon
by Edward Dolnick
Edward Dolnick's Down the Great Unknown depicts the "last epic journey
on American soil," John Wesley Powell's exploration of the Grand Canyon
and the fulminating, carnivorous Colorado River. The book, a model of precision,
clarity, and serene passion, outshines, arguably, its bestselling brother-volume,
Stephen Ambrose's Undaunted Courage. On May 24, 1869, Powell, an ambitious,
autocratic, one-armed Civil War veteran and amateur scientist, and a casually
recruited crew of nine--without a lick of white water experience--embarked
from an obscure railroad stop in the Wyoming Territory to travel through
a region "scarcely better known than Atlantis." Ninety-nine days, 1,000
miles and nearly 500 rapids later, six of the men came ashore in Arizona--the
first humans to run the waters of the Grand Canyon. Dolnick tells this
story of courage, naiveté, hardship, and petty squabbling simply and authoritatively
using entries from the men's journals, deft overviews (we always know where
we are), and short science, history, and psychology lessons, as well as
the prodigious knowledge of present-day river runners and his own first-hand
observations. His prose carries the day: Powell looks like a "stick of
beef jerky adorned with whiskers," the boats are "walnut shells," which
in rapids are little better than "ladybugs caught in a hose's blast" or
"drunks trying to negotiate a revolving door," while the river is a "taunting
bully," a "colossal mugger," a "sumo wrestler smothering a kitten," and
a notable rock formation looks like what might happen if "Edward Gorey
had designed the Bat Cave." Down the Great Unknown brushes against perfection.
This is history written as it should be--and too rarely is: enthusiastic,
rigorous, painterly, gloriously free of both pedantry and hyperbole. --H.
O'Billovitch - Amazon.com
Hardcover: 384 pages
HarperCollins; ISBN: 006019619X; 1 Ed edition (October
23, ) |
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John
Wesley Powell: Explorer of Grand Canyon (Historical American Biographies)
by Roger A. Bruns
Library Binding from Enslow Publishers, Inc.
Exploring
the Earth With John Wesley Powell (Naturalist's Apprentice Biographies)
by Michael Elsohn Ross, Wendy Smith
Library Binding from Carolrhoda Books
Into the Unknown: Major Powell's River Journey
by Peter Anderson, Tom McFarland
Paperback from Falcon
1992
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John
Wesley Powell, Soldier, Scientist, and Explorer: Soldier, Scientist, and
Explorer (Maynard, Charles W. Famous Explorers of the American West.)
by Charles W. Maynard
Library Binding from Powerkids Pr
The
Colorado River Region and John Wesley Powell (Geological Survey Professional
Paper 669)
by Mary C. Rabbitt, Edwin D. McKee, Charles B. Hunt, Luna Bergere Leopold
Paperback from University Press of the Pacific
The
Diary of John Wesley Powell (In My Own Words)
by John Wesley Powell, Peter Roop, Laszlo Kubinyi, Connie Roop
Library Binding from Benchmark Books
Canyons
of the Colorado
by Joseph Holmes, John Wesley Report on the Exploration of the Colorado
River O Powell
Hardcover from Chronicle Books
The
Romance of the Colorado River
by Frederick S. Dellenbaugh
Paperback from Dover Pubns
Red Sky, Red Water: Powell on the Colorado
by Charles Hood
Hardcover from Sun Gemini Pr
1991
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John Wesley Powell and the Anthropology of the Canyon Country
by John W. Powell
Paperback from Grand Canyon Association
1977
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John Wesley Powell: Conquest of the Canyon
by Vada F. Carlson
Library Binding from Harvey House
1974
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In the Footsteps of John Wesley Powell: An Album of Comparative Photographs
of the Green and Colorado Rivers, 1871-72 and 1968
by Hal G. Stephens, Eugene Merle Shoemaker
Paperback from Johnson Books
1989
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Report on the Lands of the Arid Region of the United States, With
a More Detailed Account of the Lands of Utah
by John Wesley Powell
Paperback from Harvard Common Pr
1983
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The Great Unknown: The Journals of the Historic First Expedition
Down the Colorado River
by John R. Cooley
Hardcover from Northland Pub
1988
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The Hopi Villages (The Ancient Province of Tusayan)
by John Wesley Powell, Lollie W. Campbell
Hardcover from Filter Press
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Photographed All the Best Scenery: Jack Hillers's Diary of the Powell
Expeditions, 1871-1875
by John K. Hillers, Don D. Fowler
Hardcover from University of Utah Press
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John Wesley Powell and the Great Surveys of the American West (World
Explorers)
by Ann Graham Gaines, William H. Goetzmann
Library Binding from Chelsea House Pub (Library)
1992
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In Search of the Grand Canyon/Down the Colorado With John Wesley
Powell (A Redfeather Book)
by Mary Ann Fraser, John Wesley Powell
Hardcover from Henry Holt & Company, Inc.
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