Beyond the hundredth meridian : John Wesley Powell and the second opening of the West / by Wallace Stegner ; with an introduction by Bernard De Voto.

Author
Stegner, Wallace, 1909-1993 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st Bison book ed.
Published/​Created
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1982, ©1954.
Description
xxv, 438 p., [9] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 21 cm.

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Special Collections - Remote Storage (ReCAP): Western Americana. Special Collections Use Only Q143.P8 S8 1982 Browse related items Reading Room Request

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    Summary note
    "In this book Wallace Stegner 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. 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."--Publisher's description.
    Notes
    • Reprint. Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1954.
    • In slipcase.
    • "This edition limited to 250 copies."
    • Princeton copy is no. 84.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • The threshold
    • The plateau province
    • Blueprint for a dryland democracy
    • The revenue of new discovery
    • The opportunity
    • The inheritance.
    ISBN
    • 080324133X ((lim. ed.))
    • 9780803241336 ((lim. ed.))
    • 0803291280 ((pbk.))
    • 9780803291287 ((pbk.))
    SuDoc no.
    U5000 T481 -1982
    LCCN
    81023090
    OCLC
    8113107
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