Title: The last canyon
Description: "In 1869 a one-armed Civil War hero named John Wesley Powell launched four boats on the Green River in Wyoming Territory, beginning what would be the last major voyage of discovery in american history, through the country's only remaining terra incognita; the remote and barren course of the Colorado River." -- Jacket.
Subjects: Paiute Indians, Conservationists, Fiction, Explorers, Naturalists, Fiction, historical, West (u.s.), fiction
Places: Grand Canyon (Ariz.), Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
People: John Wesley Powell (1834-1902)