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From the "dean of Western writers" ( The New York Times ) and the Pulitzer Prize winning-author of Angle of Repose and Crossing to Safety , a fascinating look at the old American West and the man who prophetically warned against the dangers of settling it In Beyond the Hundredth... Read Full Overview

In this book Wallace Stegner recounts the sucesses and frustrations of John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of Indian tribes of the American Southwest. A prophet without honor who had... Read Full Overview

In this book Wallace Stegner recounts the sucesses and frustrations of John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of Indian tribes of the American Southwest. A prophet without honor who had... Read Full Overview