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The Powell Expedition : New Discoveries About John Wesley Powell's 1869 River Journey

The Powell Expedition : New Discoveries About John Wesley Powell's 1869 River Journey

by University of Nevada Press

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MPN9781948908207
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John Wesley Powell's 1869 expedition down the Green and Colorado Rivers and through the Grand Canyon continues to be one of the most celebrated adventures in American history, ranking with the Lewis and Clark expedition and the Apollo landings on the moon.For nearly twenty years Lago has researched the Powell expedition from new angles, traveled to thirteen states, and looked into archives and other sources no one else has searched.He has come up with many important new documents that change and expand our basic understanding of the expedition by looking into Powell's crewmembers, some of whom have been almost entirely ignored by Powell historians.Historians tended to assume that Powell was the whole story and that his crewmembers were irrelevant.More seriously, because several crew members made critical comments about Powell and his leadership, historians who admired Powell were eager to ignore and discredit them. Lago offers a feast of new and important material about the river trip, and it will significantly rewrite the story of Powell's famous expedition.This book is not only a major work on the Powell expedition, but on the history of American exploration of the West.

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