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Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and its tributaries : explored in 1869, 1870, 1871, and 1872, under the direction of the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smithsonian Institution.
- Series:
- Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.
- Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)--Description and travel.
- Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico).
- United States--Exploring expeditions.
- Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902--Travel--Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico).
- Powell, John Wesley.
- Local Subjects:
- United States--Exploring expeditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 291 p., [66] leaves of plates ) ill. ;
- Other Title:
- Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and its tributaries
- Canyons of the Colorado.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington : G.P.O., 1875.
- Notes:
- J.W. Powell in charge.
- The present report does not include a narrative of the second descent of the river in 1871-1872, a detailed account of which may be found in F.S. Dellenbaugh's A canyon voyage, New York, 1908.
- Chapters 1-9 of pt. 1, with 6 chapters added, were published later (Meadville, Pa., 1895) under title: Canyons of the Colorado, by J.W. Powell.
- GEO-081.
- Reproduction of original from Huntington Library.
- Sabin no. 64753.
- Cited in:
- RLIN, CTRG10169780-B
- OCLC:
- 123390310
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