Beyond the Hundredth Meridian, Wallace Stegner
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian, Wallace Stegner
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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian
John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West

Author: Wallace Stegner

Narrator: Mark Bramhall

Unabridged: 17 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/12/2010

Categories: Nonfiction, History

Synopsis

Pulitzer Prize winner Wallace Stegner recounts the remarkable career of Major John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of the Southwest Indian tribes. This classic work is a penetrating and insightful study of the Powells career, from the beginning of the Powell Survey, in which Powell and his men famously became the first to descend the Colorado River, to his eventual ouster from the Geological Survey. In masterful prose, Stegner details the expedition, as well as the philosophies and ideas that drove Powell.

About Wallace Stegner

Wallace Stegner (1909–1993) wrote many books of fiction and nonfiction, including Crossing to Safety and the National Book Award–winning The Spectator Bird. Angle of Repose won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kev

On my top 10 of 10,000. No one can claim sufficient understanding of the expansion of the West in the late 19th & early 20th centuries without having read this. Stegner is a beautiful writer and you'll love this book. John Wesley Powell not only led the historic Explorations of the Grand, Green and......more

Goodreads review by Karen

This book is not an easy read. It was written in the 1950s and is a scholarly work. That said it is not difficult to read, just slow if you want to think about what is packed into this book. John Wesley Powell gained fame as the first man to run the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. He was so......more

Goodreads review by Dax

This should have been much more boring than it was. Other than Part I, which covers Powell's exploration of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon, the majority of this book centers on Powell's career leading the US Geological Survey. In that role, Powell essentially held the ultimate power in......more

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