John Wesley Powell and the second opening of the West. John Wesley Powell fought in the Civil War and it cost him an arm. But it didn't stop him from exploring the American West.
Chapter 1. Independence Day, 1868
Chapter 2. The Dynamics of a Homemade Education
Chapter 3. The Rocky Mountain Scientific Exploring Expedition
Chapter 4. Hot Sulphur Springs
Chapter 5. The Country of the White River Utes
Chapter 6. Green River: the Gateway
Chapter 7. Green River: A Volunteer of the Tribe of Gilpin
Chapter 8. The Green: Green River to the Uinta Valley
Chapter 9. The Green: Uinta Valley to the Junction with the Grand
Chapter 10. Interlude: “A Prosperous Passage ahead of Us”
Chapter 11. The Colorado: The Junction to the River of Flax
Chapter 12. The Colorado: The River of Flax to the Virgin
Chapter 1. Center and Frontier
Chapter 4. Major Powell’s Amateur Hour
Chapter 5. Exploration: Almon Thompson
Chapter 6. Physiography: Birth of a Science
Chapter 7. Geology: Grove Karl Gilbert
Chapter 8. Geological Aesthetics: Clarence Edward Dutton
Chapter 9. Pictures of a New World: Moran, Holmes, Hillers
Chapter 11. The Lunatic Fringe: Samuel Adams Again
Chapter 1. 1877: The Problem of Survival
Chapter 2. 1878: The General Plan
Chapter 1. The Best and Brightest Man of His Generation
Chapter 2. Adding the Stone Age to History
Chapter 3. The United States Geological Survey
Chapter 5. Spies and Whisperers
Chapter 1. Disaster on the Great Plains
Chapter 2. Values Measured in Acre-Feet
Chapter 3. The Long View and the Short
Chapter 4. Spies and Whisperers Again
Chapter 5. Triumph of the Gilpins
Chapter 7. Consequent Drainage
Chapter 1. Resurrection Morn, with Reservations
Chapter 2. The Corkscrew Path of Progress