Report on the lands of the arid region of the United States
Subtitle: with a more detailed account of the lands of Utah
By: by John Wesley Powell. Edited by Wallace Stegner. --
Contributors: Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902
Series: John Harvard library; John Harvard library
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 1962
Place of publication: Cambridge
Number of pages: 202
Subjects: Arid regions; Public lands
Description: Major Powell's famous 1878 report to the Secretary of the Interior outlines the features of the West's arid regions, and warns against the consequences of trying to impose on a dry country the habits formed in a wet one.
Notes: "Basic of the present text is the secon [edition] published in March 1879."