Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West by Bernard DeVoto, Wallace Stegner

Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West

Bernard DeVoto, Wallace Stegner

438 pages first pub 1954 (editions)

nonfiction biography history adventurous slow-paced
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John Wesley Powell fought in the Civil War and it cost him an arm. But it didn't stop him from exploring the American West. Here Wallace Stegner, a Pulitzer Prize-winner, gives us a thrilling account of Powell's struggle against western geography ...

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