Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West

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In this book Wallace Stegner recounts the sucesses and frustrations of John Wesley Powell, the celebrated ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the place of origin of Indian tribes of the American Southwest. A prophet without honor who had a profound working out of the American West, Powell warned long ago of the dangers economic exploitation would pose to the West and spent a great deal of his life overcoming Washington politics in getting his message across. Only now, we might recognize just how accurate a prophet he was once.

“This book goes far beyond biography, into the character and soul of the American West. It’s Stegner at his highest, assaying a whole era of our history, packing his pages with insights as shrewd as his prose.” —Ivan Doig


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