Like a teasing woman the river dawdled, meandered, surprised them with new forms, new colors, delayed and delayed and delayed the expected union of the Grand, now marked on the maps as the Colorado, at that point which on all maps was frank guesswork. (Wallace Stegner, from Beyond the Hundredth Meridian - John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West.*
I've been reading quite a bit lately. I am on my second book about the Grand Canyon since being back. (Do you think it has made a mark on me?) The latest book is about Major John Wesley Powell, and the first voyage down the Green and Colorado River, which at the time (1869), was a huge unknown. Did I mention he had one arm?
I've been reading quite a bit lately. I am on my second book about the Grand Canyon since being back. (Do you think it has made a mark on me?) The latest book is about Major John Wesley Powell, and the first voyage down the Green and Colorado River, which at the time (1869), was a huge unknown. Did I mention he had one arm?
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