The Exploration of the Colorado River in 1869. [With]: The Exploration of the Colorado River and the High Plateaus of Utah by the Second Powell Expedition of 1871-72.
first edition
1947 · Salt Lake City
by Powell, John Wesley
Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society, 1947 Volumes XV and XVI; XVII of the Utah Historical Quarterly. First edition, thus. 2 volumes (1947; 1948-49). Introduction by Dale Morgan. Pp. xiii, [1], 269 + [8], 540. 20 photographic plates and portraits, 7 maps (mostly folding). Notes, indexes. Maroon cloth, gilt. Owner's name on free endpaper of second part. A very fine set. Volume XV presents hitherto unknown and unpublished journals of the first and second Powell exploring expeditions down the Green and Colorado rivers, including the journals of George Y. Bradley, John C. Sumner, and Major J. W. Powell (1869) and the journal of Francis M. Bishop (1870-72); with these are included an account of early Colorado river exploration, biographical sketches of Major Powell's men, and contemporary newspaper accounts of their activities. Volumes XVI and XVII (bound together) continue the journals of the Powell expeditions. "This volume looks to the larger significance and fruits of this work and exploration and discovery, for the second expedition was what the first not, a carefully constituted and admirably equipped scientific organization" (Morgan). Included are the journals of Stephen Vandiver Jones, John F. Steward, and Walter Clement Powell, edited respectively by Dr. Herbert E. Gregory, William Culp Darrah, and Charles Kelly. Also included is W. C. Powell's account of the Hopi Towns; and biographical sketches of Powell's men (Beaman, Fennemore, Hillers, Dellenbaugh, Johnson, and Hattan) by William Culp Darrah.. (Inventory #: 8276)