Author: James WickershamPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Major Powell's Inquiry, "Whence Came the American Indians?"
Author: James WickershamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Major Impossible (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #9)
Author: Nathan HalePublisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1683356322
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The ninth book in the bestselling series tells the story of John Wesley Powell, the one-armed geologist who explored the Grand Canyon John Wesley Powell (1834–1902) always had the spirit of adventure in him. As a young man, he traveled all over the United States exploring. When the Civil War began, Powell went to fight for the Union, and even after he lost most of his right arm, he continued to fight until the war was over. In 1869 he embarked with the Colorado River Exploring Expedition, ten men in four boats, to float through Grand Canyon. Over the course of three months, the explorers lost their boats and supplies, nearly drowned, and were in peril on multiple occasions. Ten explorers went in, only six came out. Powell would come to be known as one of the most epic explorers in history! Equal parts gruesome and hilarious, this latest installment in the bestselling series takes readers on an action-packed adventure through American history.
Pacific Northwest Americana
Author: Charles Wesley SmithPublisher: New York : H.W. Wilson
ISBN:
Category : Northwest, Pacific
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The Colorado River Region and John Wesley Powell
Author: Glen Canyon Dammed
Author: Jared FarmerPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
"Focusing on the saddening, maddening example of Glen Canyon, Jared Farmer traces the history of exploration and development in the Four Corners region, discusses the role of tourism in changing the face of the West, and shows how the "invention" of Lake Powell has served multiple needs. He also seeks to identify the point at which change becomes loss: How do people deal with losing places they love? How are we to remember or restore lost places?"--BOOK JACKET.
On the Organization of Scientific Work of the General Government
Author: John Wesley PowellPublisher:
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Category : Geological Survey (U.S.)
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Vision and Place
Author: Jason RobisonPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520976231
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 its 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.”
My Lai
Author: Howard JonesPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195393600
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
A trenchant and haunting account of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam and its aftermath.
Native Tongues
Author: Sean P. HarveyPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674289935
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Exploring the morally entangled territory of language and race in 18th- and 19th-century America, Sean Harvey shows that whites’ theories of an “Indian mind” inexorably shaped by Indian languages played a crucial role in the subjugation of Native peoples and informed the U.S. government’s efforts to extinguish Native languages for years to come.
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