Conquerors of the River
By: [by] Richard Aldrich Summers; illustrations by Donald McKay.
Publisher: Oxford university press
Published: 1939
Place of publication: London; New York [etc.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
Copyright date: 1939
Subjects: Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902 -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
First sentence: Jack Sumner, the trader, was a slender man, six feet tall, with pale yellow hair and a blond beard that straggled down below his chin.
Description: A semi-fictional story of Major Powell's expedition on the Green and Colorado River with a band of Mountain Men and scholars.
Notes: "Printed in the United States of America."
Table of contents: title: Out of the Firelight; title: Mountain Men Come to Town; title: Trouble Rears Its Head; title: Flags Go Up; title: Days Along the River; title: Fighting the Canyon of Lodore; title: The Wreck of the No Name; title: The Jug that Brings Disaster; title: River Magic; title: Mischief with the Boats; title: Loss of a Watch; title: The Captain Takes a Ducking; title: Mutiny; title: Gold Colors; title: Jaws of the Grand Canyon; title: The Parting at Separation Rapids