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Pulitzer Prize winner Wallace Stegner recounts the exceptional career of Major John Wesley Powell, the recognized ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of the Southwest Indian tribes. This traditional work is a penetrating and insightful research of the Powell's career, from the beginning of the Powell Review, where Powell and his men famously became the first to descend the Colorado River, to his eventual expulsion from the Geological Review. In masterful prose, Stegner details the expedition, as well as the philosophies and ideas that drove Powell.
