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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The Colorado River Region and John Wesley Powell
Author: Canyons of the Colorado
Author: John Wesley PowellPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
"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.
The Colorado River Region and John Wesley Powell
Author: Mary C. RabbittPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The Colorado River Region and John Wesley Powell
Author: Mary C. RabbittPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
A collection of papers honoring Powell on the 100th anniversary of his exploration of the Colorado River, 1869-1969.
The Colorado River Region and John Wesley Powell
Author: Mary C. RabbittPublisher:
ISBN: 9780898755565
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Over a century ago John Wesley Powell - teacher, scientist, and veteran of the Civil War - set out to explore the unknown reaches of the Colorado River. He emerged from the forbidding canyons with a compelling interest in the nature of the western lands and how they could be developed for the greatest benefit to the Nation. A man gifted with imagination, yet always tempered by the scientist's appreciation for facts, Powell became one of the country's most vigorous proponents for the orderly development of the public domain and the wise use of its natural resources.Throughout his lifetime, Powell stood firm in his belief that science, as a sound basis for human progress, should serve all the people, and he played an important role in organizing and directing scientific activities of the U.S. Government. His zeal led to the establishment of the Geological Survey in the U.S. Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Ethnology in the Smithsonian Institution. He also helped to found the National Geographic Society.This collection of papers was originally published as a U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper in 1969 to honor Powell on the 100th anniversary of his exploration of the Colorado River. It includes:John Wesley Powell: Pioneer Statesman of Federal Science by Mary C. RabbittStratified Rocks of the Grand Canyon by Edwin D. McKeeGeologic History of the Colorado River by Charles D. HuntThe Rapids and the Pools - Grand Canyon by Luna B. Leopold
Vision and Place
Author: Jason RobisonPublisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520375785
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The Colorado River Basin’s importance cannot be overstated. Its living river system supplies water to roughly forty million people, contains Grand Canyon National Park, Bears Ears National Monument, and wide swaths of other public lands, and encompasses ancestral homelands of twenty-nine Native American tribes. John Wesley Powell, a one-armed Civil War veteran, explorer, scientist, and adept federal administrator, articulated a vision for Euro-American colonization of the “Arid Region” that has indelibly shaped the basin—a pattern that looms large not only in western history, but also in contemporary environmental and social policy. One hundred and fifty years after Powell’s epic 1869 Colorado River Exploring Expedition, this volume revisits Powell’s vision, examining ts historical character and its relative influence on the Colorado River Basin’s cultural and physical landscape in modern times. In three parts, the volume unpacks Powell’s ideas on water, public lands, and Native Americans—ideas at once innovative, complex, and contradictory. With an eye toward climate change and a host of related challenges facing the basin, the volume turns to the future, reflecting on how—if at all—Powell’s legacy might inform our collective vision as we navigate a new “Great Unknown.”
The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons
Author: J. W. PowellPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486120511
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
Full text of Powell's 1,000-mile expedition down the fabled Colorado in 1869. Superb account of terrain, geology, vegetation, Indians, famine, mutiny, treacherous rapids, mighty canyons. 240 illustrations.
A River Running West
Author: Donald WorsterPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195156355
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
This text is a magisterial account of John Wesley Powell, the great American explorer and environmental pioneer. It tells the true story of undaunted courage in the American West.
John Wesley Powell's Exploration of the Colorado River
Author: Mary C. RabbittPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Down the Colorado
Author: Eliot PorterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Explorers
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
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.
