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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West by Wallace Stegner Publisher Comments In this book Wallace Stegner recounts the successes and frustrations of John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of Indian tribes of the American Southwest. A... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Wicked River: The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild (Vintage) by Lee Sandlin Publisher Comments A riveting narrative look at one of the most colorful, dangerous, and peculiar places in America's historical landscape: the strange, wonderful, and mysterious Mississippi River of the 19th century. Beginning in the early 1800s and climaxing with... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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River: One Man's Journey Down the Colorado, Source to Sea by Colin Fletcher Publisher Comments At age 67, Colin Fletcher, the guru of American backpacking, undertook a strenuous solo voyage down the full length of the Colorado River. "River" tells the story of this journey of a lifetime, served up with delectable brio and wit. 47 photos, 23 maps.... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Goodbye to a River: A Narrative by John Graves Publisher Comments In the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the Brazos River in north-central Texas. For John Graves, this project meant that if the streams regimen was thus changed, the beautiful and sometimes brutal surrounding countryside would also change, as... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Down the Great Unknown : John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon (01 Edition) by Edward Dolnick Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-354) and index.... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Old Glory: A Voyage Down the Mississippi by Jonathan Raban Publisher Comments As a child in England, Jonathan Raban read Huckleberry Finn and dreamed of floating down the Mississippi. Thirty years later he realized his dream in a spartan sixteen-foot motorboat, navigating the river from Minneapolis to Morgan City, Louisiana, and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons by John Wesley Powell Publisher Comments Full text of Powell's 1,000-mile expedition down the fabled Colorado in 1869. Superb account of terrain, geology, vegetation, Indians, famine, mutiny, treacherous rapids, mighty canyons, during exploration of last unknown part of continental U.S.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Potomac (Rivers of America) by Frederick Albert Gutheim Synopsis Traces the course of the Potomac River from its origin in West Virginia to the Chesapeake Bay, and recounts historic events that have occurred along the river.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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It Happened on the Mississippi River (It Happened in) by James Crutchfield Publisher Comments Not just the purview of Mark Twain and his characters, the Mighty Mississippi offers a fascinating look at America. Thirty stories from the history of the Mississippi River will captivate you as you travel from Lake Itasca to the Gulf of Mexico.... (read more) List Price $12.75 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The River Where America Began: A Journey Along the James by Bob Deans Publisher Comments From the establishment of the first permanent English colony at Jamestown in 1607 to the fall of Richmond in 1865, the James River has been instrumental in the formation of modern America. It was along the James that British and Native American cultures... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Hudson: The Story of a River by Robert Baron Publisher Comments In a series of lyrical paintings, Locker captures the majesty of the Hudson River while Baron weaves a fascinating history, witnessed by everyone from the native New York tribes to today's conservationists who have fought to preserve the waterway. Full... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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America by Rivers by Tim Palmer Publisher Comments Photographer and writer Tim Palmer has spent more than twenty-five years researching and experiencing life on the waterways of the American continent. He has travelled by canoe or raft on more than 300 different rivers, down wide placid streams and rough... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation by Peter L Bernstein Publisher Comments The building of the Erie Canal, like the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge and the Panama Canal, is one of the greatest and most riveting stories of American ingenuity. Best-selling author Peter Bernstein presents the story of the canal's construction... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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Peaceful Canyon, Golden River: A Photographic Journey Through Fabled Glen Canyon with CDROM by David Gaskill Synopsis An amazing historic reference of the explorations of the Glen Canyon before it was drowned under Lake PowellDammed in 1956, the Glen Canyon made Lake Powell the second largest man-made reservoir in the western hemisphereThe Glen Canyon was once the... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons by John Wesley Powell Publisher Comments Full text of Powell's 1,000-mile expedition down the fabled Colorado in 1869. Superb account of terrain, geology, vegetation, Indians, famine, mutiny, treacherous rapids, mighty canyons, during exploration of last unknown part of continental U.S. 240... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $11.49 Google eBooks - Electronic
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My Kind of River Journey: Seeking Passage on the Mississippi (Center for American Places - My Kind of . . .) by Susan Carol Hauser Publisher Comments The latest in a moving series of memoirs from the Center for American Places that celebrate the connection between individual and place, My Kind of River Journey takes the reader to the storied Mississippi River through the eyes of poet Susan Carol... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Hudson River: From the Tear of the Clouds to Manhattan by Jake Rajs Publisher Comments Celebrated as the American Rhine, the majestic Hudson River flows more than three hundred miles from its source high in the Adirondack Mountains to New York Harbor. Lining its banks are the marks of the four hundred years of history that have transpired... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Our Historic Boundary Waters by Duane R Lund Publisher Comments This book describes what life was really like years ago in the wilderness, the importance of strength and endurance, how they dealt with sickness, animals and weather.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $1.75 Used - Trade Paper
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Old Glory: A Voyage down the Mississippi by Jonathan Raban Publisher Comments The author of Bad Land realizes a lifelong dream as he navigates the waters of the Mississippi River in a spartan sixteen-foot motorboat, producing yet another masterpiece of contemporary American travel writing.In the course of his voyage, Raban records... (read more) Your price: $13.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Always a River, Second Edition: The Ohio River and the American Experience by Robert L Reid Synopsis The ever-changing Ohio River flows through time as well as space, connecting us with the past as it links Pittsburgh with Cincinnati, Cairo, and New Orleans. Always a River views the Ohio through the perspective of history, geography, political science... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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