Beyond the Hundredth Meridian

by Stegner, Wallace

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 a profound understanding of the American West, Powell warned long ago of the dangers economic exploitation would pose to the West and spent a good deal of his life overcoming Washington politics in getting his message across. Only now, we may recognize just how accurate a prophet he was.

"This book goes far beyond biography, into the nature and soul of the American West. It is Stegner at his best, assaying an entire era of our history, packing his pages with insights as shrewd as his prose." —Ivan Doig

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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West

by Stegner, Wallace; Introduction by Bernard DeVoto

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company; The Riverside Press, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Very good +. 438pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Brown cloth with gilt stamped titles. Includes an index and a large fold-out of "The Grand Canyon of the Colorado: Panorama looking east, south, and west from Point Sublime," by William H. Holmes. Moderate bumping and rubbing to the extremities.… Read more about this item
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company; The Riverside Press, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. 438pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Brown cloth with gilt stamped titles. Includes an index and a large fold-out of "The Grand Canyon of the Colorado: Panorama looking east, south, and west from Point Sublime," by William H. Holmes. Previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. Better than very good… Read more about this item
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1954. First Edition. 8vo. 438 pp. Introduction by Bernard DeVoto. Spectacular fold-out panoramic view of the Canyon; illustrated plates. Near fine (some splitting along fold lines of fold-out panorama) in very good dustjacket (some wear to extremities, moreso to spine ends with chipping). In this fascinating look at the old American West, Stegner recounts the… Read more about this item
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Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1954, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover.. A biography of John Wesley Powell "and the second opening of the West," introduction by Bernard De Voto, the book is also dedicated to him, with the fold-out panorama of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado looking east, south, and west from Point Sublime by William H. Holmes, it also… Read more about this item
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This book recounts the story of John Wesley Powell, who explored the Grand Canyon, the Colorado River, and the lands of the Native Peoples who had lived in this area for centuries.
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1954. A lovely first edition, signed by Stegner on title page in black ink. Contains original maps and the jacket is whole with some wear and protected by a mylar jacket. 438pp.. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good.
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New York: Penguin Books. Paperback. New. 438 pp. Duodecimo trade paperback [19.5cm] Illustrated wrappers. Index. Illustrated. Introduction by Bernard De Voto. A biography of Major John Wesley Powell commonly referred to as the father of the United States Geological Survey. Powell was also the first head of the Bureau of American Ethnology. While this work centers on Powell… Read more about this item
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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West

by Wallace Stegner

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1982. STEGNER, Wallace. Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, [1982]. Limited edition. xxv,438pp. Folding frontis., plates, maps, map endpapers. Orig. cloth, publisher's pictorial slipcase. Fine. One of 250 numbered copies signed by the author.
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