San Antonio College Library

An account of the dramatic quest to explore one of the most unforgiving, and breathtakingly beautiful, places on earth. Depicts John Wesley Powell's perilous thousand-mile expedition through the uncharted canyons of the Green and Colorado Rivers in the summer of 1869.

An abridgement of the author's journal originally published in pt. 1, "History of the exploration of the cnyons of the Colorado," of the report of the Smithsonian Institution: Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and its tributaries.

John Wesley Powell's contributions to the opening of the West, and to the scientific study of the nation.

Intrepid explorer, careful scientist, talented writer, and dedicated conservationist, Powell led the expedition that put the Colorado River on American maps and revealed the Grand Canyon to the world. In A River Running West, Donald Worster tells the story of Powell's great adventures and describes his historical significance. Worster paints a vivid portrait of how this man emerged from the early nineteenth-century world of immigrants, fervent religion,...