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Arizona Grand Canyon Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) Discovery and exploration Explorers United States Biography Grand Canyon (Ariz.) Description and travel Grand Canyon (Ariz.) Discovery and exploration North America Colorado River Powell, John Wesley 1834-1902 Travel Arizona Grand Canyon Scientific expeditions Travel Women travelersRoss, John F.
Summary: "When John Wesley Powell became the first person to navigate the entire Colorado River, through the Grand Canyon, he completed what Lewis and Clark had begun nearly 70 years earlier--the final exploration of continental America. The son of an abolitionist preacher, a Civil War hero (who lost an arm at Shiloh), and a passionate naturalist and geologist, in 1869 Powell tackled the vast and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 ROSSevigny, Melissa L.
Summary: "The riveting tale of two pioneering botanists and their historic boat trip down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon. In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious and entrepreneurial expedition leader, a zoologist, and two amateur boatmen. With its churning waters and treacherous boulders, the Colorado...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SEVCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SEVDolnick, Edward
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001