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1Canyons of the Colorado

By John Wesley Powell

John Wesley Powell was a pioneer American explorer, ethnologist, and geologist in the 19th Century. In 1869 he set out to explore the Colorado and the Grand Canyon. He gathered nine men, four boats and food for ten months and set out from Green River, Wyoming, on May 24. Passing through dangerous rapids, the group passed down the Green River to its confluence with the Colorado River (then also known as the Grand River upriver from the junction), near present-day Moab, Utah.<br><br>The expedition's route traveled through the Utah canyons of the Colorado River, which Powell described in his published diary as having …wonderful features—carved walls, royal arches, glens, alcove gulches, mounds and monuments. From which of these features shall we select a name? We decide to call it Glen Canyon. (Ironically, now almost completely submerged by Lake Powell, behind the Glen Canyon Dam.)<br><br>One man (Goodman) quit after the first month and another three (Dunn and the Howland brothers) left at Separation Rapid in the third, only two days before the group reached the mouth of the Virgin River on August 30 after traversing almost 1,500 km. The three who left the group late in the trip were later killed—probably by Indians.<br><br>Powell retraced the route in 1871-1872 with another expedition, producing photographs, an accurate map, and various papers, including ethnographic reports of the area's Native Americans and a monograph on their languages. --adapted from Wikipedia

2Haunted Hangar

By Van Powell

Second entry in series of teen aviation stories, filled with lots of scientific jargon, a jewel heist, and adventure. Van Powell is a pseudonym of early Hollywood screenwriter, Ardon Van Buren Powell (1886-1958). ( Matt Pierard)

3Titan Of Chasms: The Grand Canyon Of Arizona

By Charles A. Higgins, Charles F. Lummis and John Wesley Powell

This is a 1906 collection of three essays by men famously associated with The Grand Canyon: Charles A. Higgins, John Wesley Powell, and Charles F. Lummis. - Summary by david wales

At long last, Zoe Bourne is moving. For years, she has yearned to leave her stifling, small hometown of Albon, and become a writer in Manhattan. She arrives in the city with the optimism of youth, and she’s greeted with a collective, acerbic shrug. Zoe soon learns she will need to fight harder than she ever imagined to carve out the literary niche she's been dreaming of. Otherwise, she faces the prospect of drudgery just as dull and uninspiring as her life in Albon had been.<br><br> Dawn Powell's debut novel crackles with the keenly-observed wit of her later work. Though she came to distance herself from this early effort, "Whither" is an important document in the development of her style, and it’s filled with comedic moments that will delight and entertain her admirers. - Summary by Jake Folsom