Environmental History, October 1st, 2001
A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell. By Donald Worster. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xiii + 673 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00. Major John Wesley Powell played a fabulous formative role in American environmental history. This semi-schooled, one-armed Civil War veteran was the first man to descend the length of the Colorado River and to chart its character, and the first to penetrate and provide a true portrait of the Plateau Province of Colorado and Utah. Explorer, geologist, ethnologist, conservationist, and administrator, he swept aw...
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