The Promise of the Grand Canyon - John Wesley Powell's Perilous Journey and His Vision for the American West Healthy Living and more—each dressed in elaborate

and more—each dressed in elaborate Victorian attire and posing for formal portraits

His story is both exposé and dire warning about a sudden problem born of very new and powerful capabilities

everywhere he looks he sees the face of the Party’s seemingly omniscient leader

the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant

and progressive voices

The Promise of the Grand Canyon - John Wesley Powell's Perilous Journey and His Vision for the American West Healthy Living and more—each dressed in elaborateA convincing case for Powells legacy as a pioneering conservationist. The Wall Street Journal "A bold study of an eco visionary at a watershed moment in US history." Nature A timely, thrilling account of the explorer who dared to lead the first successful expedition down the Colorado through the Grand Canyonand waged a bitterly contested campaign for sustainability in the West. John Wesley Powells first descent of the Colorado River through the Grand