first edition Hardcover
1954 · Boston
by Stegner, Wallace; Bernard DeVoto (Introduction)
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company; The Riverside Press, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good -/Good +. 438pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Brown cloth with gilt stamped titles. Cartographic endpapers. The spine is rolled and the edges of the boards are mildly rubbed. Prior owner's bookplate on rear pastedown. Several short, closed tears along edges of dust jacket, with small losses at spine ends. Bit of soiling to rear panel. Includes an index and a large fold-out of "The Grand Canyon of the Colorado: Panorama looking east, south, and west from Point Sublime," by William H. Holmes.
A biography of Major John Wesley Powell commonly referred to as the father of the United States Geological Survey. Powell was also the first head of the Bureau of American Ethnology. While this work centers on Powell it is also going to touch on the surveys of Hayden, King and Wheeler. Colberg A13. 1.a. Ford 65. (Inventory #: 68114)
A biography of Major John Wesley Powell commonly referred to as the father of the United States Geological Survey. Powell was also the first head of the Bureau of American Ethnology. While this work centers on Powell it is also going to touch on the surveys of Hayden, King and Wheeler. Colberg A13. 1.a. Ford 65. (Inventory #: 68114)
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