Down the Colorado with Major Powell
- ISBN-10
- 0395072573
- ISBN-13
- 9780395072578
- Category
- Travel / Parks & Campgrounds
- Pages
- 184
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1960
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Author
- James Ramsey Ullman
Description
An "account of John Wesley Powell's dangerous pioneering journey down the raging Colorado River through the Grand Canyon during the Spring and Summer of 1869."
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