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Wallace Stegner Beyond the Hundredth Meridian

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Title: Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
Author: Stegner, Wallace
Description: xxiii, [3], 438 pp. Introduction by Bernard DeVoto. Illustrations from engravings, paintings, sketches, photos, etc., including a large folding panoramic frontispiece painting of the Grand Canyon by William H. Holmes; map on the front endpapers. 8vo. Brown cloth, pictorial jacket. First Edition.The dramatic story of John Wesley Powell, father of the American Geological Survey and leader of the first expedition to descend the Green and Colorado Rivers through all their canyons, including the Grand Canyon, in 1869 and 1871-72. No printed price on jacket (as issued) with no book club indications. Colberg A13.1.a.
Heading: Place Published: Boston
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Date Published: 1954