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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"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 was famed as the most dangerous river in the world. Journalists...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[1961]
Language
English
Description
With "The Exploration of the Colorado River and its Canyons," readers can explore the one-thousand miles of the Colorado River in its natural state nearly one-hundred and fifty years ago. Legendary explorer John Wesley Powell, accompanied by a crew of close friends and associates, details his travels through the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon at a time when much of the area was unknown to contemporary readers. Starting in Wyoming, the crew travelled...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
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 dangerous gorge carved by the Colorado River and known today...
Publisher
KUED
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Horses of the west: America's love story is about horses and the people who love them. The story is an emotional journey with segments including wild horses, girls and their horses, rescue horses, Arabians, working cutting quarter horses, thoroughbreds, Appaloosas, and therapy horses. All celebrate the extraordinary bond between horses and humans"--Container.
Author
Publisher
Black Canyon Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
It's 1931 and men are desperate for jobs. A lucky few will get to work in the searing heat of the Nevada desert on the massive Hoover Dam, the single largest public works project in history. Their goal is to tame the mighty Colorado River with a dam that will create the largest man-made lake in the world. But can they can overcome their own prejudices to do it?
Publisher
National Geographic Channel
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The lure of the unknown and a love of adventure drew John Wesley Powell and his crew of nine to the last uncharted waters of the American west in 1869, Their goal: to be the first to ride the mighty Colorado River through the Grand Canyon and map its unexplored territory. Experience the explorers' harrowing descents through furious rapids and their wondrous discoveries on land as they overcome treacherous white eater, blistering heat, and near starvation,...
39) The Emerald Mile: the epic story of the fastest ride in history though the heart of the Grand Canyon
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
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