Down the Colorado

Down the Colorado

Author: Deborah Kogan Ray

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2007-10-16

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 9780374318383

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Chronicles the experiences of John Wesley Powell, who led the first scientific expedition down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon.


Down the Colorado

Down the Colorado

Author: Eliot Porter

Publisher:

Published: 1969

Total Pages: 12

ISBN-13:

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One hundred years ago John Wesley Powell set out to explore the Grand Canyon of the Colorado - something no man had attempted before. His official report of the voyage remains one of the great adventure stories in all the literature of the American West.


Running Dry

Running Dry

Author: Jonathan Waterman

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1426205058

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An eye-witness account of the many demands on the Colorado, from irrigating 3.5 million acres of farmland to watering the lawns of Los Angeles.


The Emerald Mile

The Emerald Mile

Author: Kevin Fedarko

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-07

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 1439159866

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The epic story of the fastest boat ride in history, on a hand-built dory named the "Emerald Mile," through the heart of the Grand Canyon on the Colorado river.


Down the Great Unknown

Down the Great Unknown

Author: Edward Dolnick

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-03-17

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 006176034X

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Drawing on rarely examined diaries and journals, Down the Great Unknown is the first book to tell the full, dramatic story of the Powell expedition. On May 24, 1869 a one-armed Civil War veteran, John Wesley Powell and a ragtag band of nine mountain men embarked on the last great quest in the American West. The Grand Canyon, not explored before, was as mysterious as Atlantis—and as perilous. The ten men set out from Green River Station, Wyoming Territory down the Colorado in four wooden rowboats. Ninety-nine days later, six half-starved wretches came ashore near Callville, Arizona. Lewis and Clark opened the West in 1803, six decades later Powell and his scruffy band aimed to resolve the West’s last mystery. A brilliant narrative, a thrilling journey, a cast of memorable heroes—all these mark Down the Great Unknown, the true story of the last epic adventure on American soil.


Downcanyon

Downcanyon

Author: Ann Zwinger

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 1995-07

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 0816515565

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Describes the river, including ruins, small wildlife, and the experiences of early travelers


Canyons of the Colorado

Canyons of the Colorado

Author: John Wesley Powell

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-11-29

Total Pages: 506

ISBN-13: 3387313845

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Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.


Where the Water Goes

Where the Water Goes

Author: David Owen

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2017-04-11

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0698189906

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“Wonderfully written…Mr. Owen writes about water, but in these polarized times the lessons he shares spill into other arenas. The world of water rights and wrongs along the Colorado River offers hope for other problems.” —Wall Street Journal An eye-opening account of where our water comes from and where it all goes. The Colorado River is an essential resource for a surprisingly large part of the United States, and every gallon that flows down it is owned or claimed by someone. David Owen traces all that water from the Colorado’s headwaters to its parched terminus, once a verdant wetland but now a million-acre desert. He takes readers on an adventure downriver, along a labyrinth of waterways, reservoirs, power plants, farms, fracking sites, ghost towns, and RV parks, to the spot near the U.S.–Mexico border where the river runs dry. Water problems in the western United States can seem tantalizingly easy to solve: just turn off the fountains at the Bellagio, stop selling hay to China, ban golf, cut down the almond trees, and kill all the lawyers. But a closer look reveals a vast man-made ecosystem that is far more complex and more interesting than the headlines let on. The story Owen tells in Where the Water Goes is crucial to our future: how a patchwork of engineering marvels, byzantine legal agreements, aging infrastructure, and neighborly cooperation enables life to flourish in the desert—and the disastrous consequences we face when any part of this tenuous system fails.


A River Running West

A River Running West

Author: Donald Worster

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 692

ISBN-13: 9780195156355

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This text is a magisterial account of John Wesley Powell, the great American explorer and environmental pioneer. It tells the true story of undaunted courage in the American West.


The Promise of the Grand Canyon

The Promise of the Grand Canyon

Author: John F. Ross

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2019-05-07

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 0143128957

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“A convincing case for Powell’s legacy as a pioneering conservationist.”--The Wall Street Journal "A bold study of an eco-visionary at a watershed moment in US history."--Nature A timely, thrilling account of the explorer who dared to lead the first successful expedition down the Colorado through the Grand Canyon—and waged a bitterly-contested campaign for sustainability in the West. John Wesley Powell’s first descent of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon in 1869 counts among the most dramatic chapters in American exploration history. When the Canyon spit out the surviving members of the expedition—starving, battered, and nearly naked—they had accomplished what others thought impossible and finished the exploration of continental America that Lewis and Clark had begun almost 70 years before. With The Promise of the Grand Canyon, John F. Ross tells how that perilous expedition launched the one-armed Civil War hero on the path to becoming the nation’s foremost proponent of environmental sustainability and a powerful, if controversial, visionary for the development of the American West. So much of what he preached—most broadly about land and water stewardship—remains prophetically to the point today.