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A Canyon Voyage: The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition Down the Green-Colorado River From Wyoming, and the Explorations On Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872

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The Romance of The Colorado River: The story of its discovery in 1540, with an account of the later explorations, and with special reference to the voyages of Powell through the line of the Great Canyon.

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Excerpt: ...and he was never in the Far West again. Running on through Red Canyon with exhilarating velocity, but without any serious drawback, the party came out into the tranquil Brown's Hole, henceforth called Brown's Park. At the foot of this, without any preliminaries, they were literally swept into the heart of the mountains, for it is here that the river so suddenly rends the massive formations in twain and speeds away toward the sea between wonderful precipices of red sandstone, churning itself to ivory in the headlong rush. This was named the Canyon of Lodore at the suggestion of one of the men. The work of safely proceeding down the torrent now grew far more difficult. Rapids were numerous and the descent in most of them very great. The boats had to be handled with extra caution. The method of travelling was for Powell to go ahead in the Emma Dean to examine the nature of each rapid before the other boats should come down to it. If he saw a clear chute he ran through and signalled "come on," but if he thought it too risky he signalled "land," and the place was examined as well as he was able from the shore. If this investigation showed a great many dangerous rocks, or any other dangerous element, a portage was made, or the boats were let down along the edge by lines without taking out the cargoes. In this careful way they were getting along very well, when one day they came to a particularly threatening place. Powell immediately perceived the danger, and, landing, signalled the other boats to do likewise. Unfortunately, the warning came too late for the No-Name, which was drawn into a sag, a sort of hollow lying just above the rapid, to clutch the unwary and drive them over the fall to certain destruction. Powell for a moment had given his attention to the last boat, and as he turned again and hurried along to discover the fortune of the No-Name, which was plunging down, without hope of escape, toward the frightful descent, he was just in time to see...

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As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)

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The Romance of the Colorado River

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A Canyon Voyage: The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition Down the Green-Colorado River From Wyoming, and the Explorations On Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872

The Romance of the Colorado River (Classics of the Old West)

The romance of the Colorado River: The story of its discovery in 1540, with an account of the later explorations, and with special reference to the ... the great canyons (Classics of the Old West)

The romance of the Colorado River: The story of its discovery in 1540, with an account of the later explorations, and with special reference to the ... the great canyons (Classics of the Old West)

A Canyon Voyage: The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition Down the Green-Colorado River From Wyoming, and the Explorations On Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872

George Armstrong Custer

George Armstrong Custer

The Romance of the Colorado River

Books By American Travelers And Explorers: From 1846 To 1900 (1920)

Breaking the Wilderness: The Story of the Conquest of the Far West, from the Wanderings of Cabeza De Vaca, to the First Descent of the Colorado by ... Account of the Exploits of Trappers