A River Running West
Subtitle: The Life of John Wesley Powell
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: September 30, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 688
ISBN-13: 9780195156355
First sentence: John Wesley Powell was born on 24 March 1834 in Mount Morris, New York, a tidy village of brick churches and clapboarded houses newly planted in the back country.