Beyond the Hundredth Meridian; John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1954. First Edition. Octavo. Item #024189
Frontispiece is a fine folding panoramic view of the Grand Canyon of Colorado looking east, south and west from Point Sublime by William H. Holmes from Dutton's Tertiary History of the Grand Canon District. 438 pp. illustrated with maps, photographic images and drawings and with an introduction by Bernard DeVoto. "John Wesley Powell's most dramatic achievement was his leadership of the first expedition to descend the Green and Colorado Rivers through all their canyons, including the Grand Canyon, in 1869 and again in 1871-72. Powell was also the founder of the Bureau of American Ethnology, which first brought system to the study of the Indian tribes. A near fine copy bound in light brown cloth lettered in gilt, spine lettering gilt, with just a bit of toning to upper margin of folding frontispiece, in a near fine pictorial dust jacket.
Price: $525.00