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The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons

John Wesley Powell

Form
Form Travel Writing
Year
Year 1875
Pages
Pages 400

Ten men set off in four wooden boats down a river nobody had followed to its end. Powell had a barometer, some flour already going sour, and one arm; the other he left at Shiloh.

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The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, John Wesley Powell

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