Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
by Stegner, Wallace
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company. No dust jacket. Lightly worn brown cloth covers with 2" tear and small chip at top of spine. Spine slightly cocked, long fold-out illustration of the grand canyon has long tear at one of the folds, pages lightly yellowed, else good+. Presumed first edition, as 1954 is stamped under publisher name on title page, although copyright says 1953, 1954. Inscribed. Book came directly to this bookseller from the original owner. Book inscribed to this owner and a rather humorous, personal, handwritten postcard to the owner is laid in: "Dear Mrs. Baldwin, If our wandering son shows up at your house, would you tell him that will be in Greensboro sometime on June 25, and that if (as I expect) he arrives earlier he should get the house key from Sam Ladd or Mr. Cowley, or get into the "Children's House" by their keep[?] and get our house key from beside the sink? Our best greetings and thanks, in a big hurry, Wallace Stegner" . Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1954.
Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Vintage Quaker/Corner Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 088604
- Title
- Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
- Author
- Stegner, Wallace
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1954
- Keywords
- HISTORY; HISTORICAL; AMERICANA; AMERICAN WEST; ILLUSTRATED
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- Cocked
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- Inscribed
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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