A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley PowellOxford University Press, 14 Des 2000 - 688 halaman If the word "hero" still belonged in the historian's lexicon, it would certainly be applied to John Wesley Powell. Intrepid explorer, careful scientist, talented writer, and dedicated conservationist, Powell led the expedition that put the Colorado River on American maps and revealed the Grand Canyon to the world. Now comes the first biography of this towering figure in almost fifty years--a book that captures his life in all its heroism, idealism, and ambivalent, ambiguous humanity. In A River Running West, Donald Worster, one of our leading Western historians, tells the story of Powell's great adventures and describes his historical significance with compelling clarity and skill. Worster paints a vivid portrait of how this man emerged from the early nineteenth-century world of immigrants, fervent religion, and rough-and-tumble rural culture, and barely survived the Civil War battle at Shiloh. The heart of Worster's biography is Powell's epic journey down the Colorado in 1869, a tale of harrowing experiences, lethal accidents, and breathtaking discoveries. After years in the region collecting rocks and fossils and learning to speak the local Native American languages, Powell returned to Washington as an eloquent advocate for the West, one of America's first and most influential conservationists. But in the end, he fell victim to a clique of Western politicians who pushed for unfettered economic development, relegating the aging explorer to a quiet life of anthropological contemplation. John Wesley Powell embodied the energy, optimism, and westward impulse of the young United States. A River Running West is a gorgeously written, magisterial account of this great American explorer and environmental pioneer, a true story of undaunted courage in the American West. |
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... railroad uniting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The smaller party, only ten men in all, encamped a few hundred miles to the east; their leader called them the Colorado River Exploring Expedition. Together the two groups created a ...
... railroad uniting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The smaller party, only ten men in all, encamped a few hundred miles to the east; their leader called them the Colorado River Exploring Expedition. Together the two groups created a ...
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... railroad town of Green River in the territory of Wyoming. The previous fall it had been a raucous construction camp populated by Irish laborers, prostitutes, and saloons. Behind the dusty town with its false-front buildings, many of ...
... railroad town of Green River in the territory of Wyoming. The previous fall it had been a raucous construction camp populated by Irish laborers, prostitutes, and saloons. Behind the dusty town with its false-front buildings, many of ...
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... railroad's saga of torrid construction and capitalist triumph was about to commence. They launched their boats on 24 May 1869. Which was the more significant event that spring? Public opinion then, and probably now, would say that it ...
... railroad's saga of torrid construction and capitalist triumph was about to commence. They launched their boats on 24 May 1869. Which was the more significant event that spring? Public opinion then, and probably now, would say that it ...
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... railroads to carry commodities from farm to city, from industry back to farm. He saw the emergence of an economy based on coal, petroleum, and steel, and eventually one based on electricity and automobiles. In his lifetime the United ...
... railroads to carry commodities from farm to city, from industry back to farm. He saw the emergence of an economy based on coal, petroleum, and steel, and eventually one based on electricity and automobiles. In his lifetime the United ...
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... railroad here, a highway there, a few more houses and stores but not enough to alter radically its mid-nineteenth-century character. The area's most important asset remained the Genesee gorge, renowned as one of the great natural ...
... railroad here, a highway there, a few more houses and stores but not enough to alter radically its mid-nineteenth-century character. The area's most important asset remained the Genesee gorge, renowned as one of the great natural ...
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