Lives & Memoirs
Biographical Memoir of John Wesley Powell, 1834-1902
William Morris Davis
2026
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He lost his right arm at Shiloh and ran the Colorado anyway. In 1869 Powell took four boats into a canyon nobody had mapped and came out with three, then spent the rest of his life telling a country in love with itself that the West was dry and would not support the farms being sold on it.
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33 chapters
- 1Early Life6m
- 2Service in the Civil War5m
- 3Visit to the Rocky Mountains, 1867-18684m
- 4Exploration of the Colorado Canyon9m
- 5Geological Survey of the Territories and Report on the Colorado Canyon11m
- 6Antecedent Rivers11m
- 7Geological Work6m
- 8Physiographic Work8m
- 9Baselevel of Erosion8m
- 10Planation5m
- 11Physiographic Essays7m
- 12Lands of the Arid Region21m
- 13The Geological Survey11m
- 14Topographical Map5m
- 15Reports and Folios4m
- 16Irrigation Survey2m
- 17Administration7m
- 18Resignation from the Survey7m
- 19Residence in Washington3m
- 20Ethnological Work7m
- 21Bureau of Ethnology3m
- 22Indian Languages and Mythology7m
- 23Savagery, Barbarism, and Civilization3m
- 24Synthetic Essays10m
- 25Mannerisms3m
- 26Views on Evolution7m
- 27Evolution of Music12m
- 28Inductive Studies2m
- 29Indian Linguistic Families5m
- 30Philosophical Studies6m
- 31Pentalogic Series3m
- 32Truth and Error5m
- 33Personal Estimates4m
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