Ebook: The promise of the Grand Canyon: John Wesley Powell's perilous journey and his vision for the American West

Indhold: Introduction ; Into the cauldron ; Osage oranges and pink muckets ; Thinking bayonets ; First thoughts west ; Descent ; The canyon ; Encore ; Fighting the national surveys ; A radical idea ; Taking over Washington ; A tough opponent ; Last stand ; Epilogue;An account of a man who, as an explorer, dared to lead the first successful expedition down the Colorado through the Grand Canyon - and, as an American visionary, waged a bitterly-contested campaign for environmental sustainability in the American West