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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
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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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Status
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Notes
Special Collections - Remote Storage (ReCAP): Western Americana. Special Collections Use Only
Q143.P8 S8 1982
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Subject(s)
Scientists
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United States
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Biography
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West (U.S.)
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History
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Powell, John Wesley 1834-1902
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Biographies
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Getty AAT genre
collective biographies
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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.
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ISBN
080324133X ((lim. ed.))
9780803241336 ((lim. ed.))
0803291280 ((pbk.))
9780803291287 ((pbk.))
SuDoc no.
U5000 T481 -1982
LCCN
81023090
OCLC
8113107
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