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Stegner: Beyond the 100th Meridian. 1st Ed.

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Stegner: Beyond the 100th Meridian. 1st Ed.
<B>Wallace Stegner. </B></I><B><I>Beyond the Hundredth Meridian, </B></I></B></I><I>John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West.</B></I> Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1954. <BR>First edition. Octavo. 438 pages including Index. With an eight-panel, fold-out panoramic frontispiece of the Grand Canyon by William H. Holmes, and numerous photos, maps, artist's renderings, etc..<BR><BR>Brown cloth with gilt lettering; pictorial map endpapers. Slight shelfwear. Dust jacket is chipped and worn at edges, particularly at spine head. Powell's most dramatic achievement was his leadership of the 1869 and 1871-72 expeditions to descend the Green and Colorado Rivers through all their canyons, including the Grand Canyon. Stegner's review of Powell's expeditions is one of the best, this being a particularly impressive copy.<BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Books & Catalogs (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)