Beyond the Hundredth Meridian
John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
From the “dean of Western writers” (The New York Times) and the Pulitzer Prize winning–author of Angle of Repose and Crossing to Safety, a fascinating look at the old American West and the man who prophetically warned against the dangers of settling it
In Beyond the Hundredth Meridian, Wallace Stegner recounts the sucesses and frustrations of John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of Indian tribes of the American Southwest. A prophet without honor who had a profound understanding of the American West, Powell warned long ago of the dangers economic exploitation would pose to the West and spent a good deal of his life overcoming Washington…
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March 1, 1992Wallace Stegner (1909–1993) was the author of, among other novels, All the Little Live Things (winner of a Commonwealth Club Gold Medal), Angle of Repose (winner of the Pulitzer Prize), and The Spectator Bird (winner of the National Book Award). His nonfiction includes The Sound of Mountain Water, The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard DeVoto, and Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West. Three of his short stories won O. Henry Prizes, and in 1980 he received the Robert Kirsch Award from the Los Angeles Times for his lifetime literary achievements.
Joe Hill
Wallace Stegner
Recapitulation
Wallace Stegner
The Big Rock Candy Mountain
Wallace Stegner
The Sound of Mountain Water
Wallace Stegner
The Spectator Bird
Wallace Stegner
The Uneasy Chair
Wallace Stegner
Angle of Repose
Wallace Stegner
Collected Stories (Stegner, Wallace)
Wallace Stegner
American Places
Wallace Stegner and Page Stegner
The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons
John Wesley Powell
On Teaching and Writing Fiction
Wallace Stegner
Crossing to Safety
Wallace Stegner
Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs
Wallace Stegner