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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West

10 best books like Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West (Wallace Stegner): A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There, Desert Solitaire, Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon, Encounters with the Archdruid, The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, The Secret Knowledge of Water, Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis, Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
AuthorAldo Leopold
ISBN0195007778
First published in 1949, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land.

Written with an unparalleled understanding of the ways of nature, the book includes a section on the...
Desert Solitaire
AuthorEdward Abbey
ISBN0345326490
First published in 1968, Desert Solitaire is one of Edward Abbey’s most critically acclaimed works and marks his first foray into the world of nonfiction writing. Written while Abbey was working as a ranger at Arches National Park outside of Moab, Utah, Desert Solitaire is a rare view of one man’s...
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
AuthorMarc Reisner
ISBN0140178244
The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruption and intrigue, of billion-dollar battles over water rights, of ecologic and economic disaster. In Cadillac Desert Marc Reisner writes...
Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon
AuthorEdward Dolnick
ISBN0060955864
Drawing on rarely examined diaries and journals, Down the Great Unknown is the first book to tell the full, dramatic story of the Powell expedition.

On May 24, 1869 a one-armed Civil War veteran, John Wesley Powell and a ragtag band of nine mountain men embarked on the last great quest in the American...
Encounters with the Archdruid
AuthorJohn McPhee
ISBN0374514313
The narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses - on a coastal island, in a Western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. The four men portrayed here have different relationships to their environment, and they encounter each other on mountain trails, in...
The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons
AuthorJohn Wesley Powell
ISBN0142437522
One of the great works of American exploration literature, this account of a scientific expedition forced to survive famine, attacks, mutiny, and some of the most dangerous rapids known to man remains as fresh and exciting today as it was in 1874.

The Exploration of the Colorado River and...
The Secret Knowledge of Water
AuthorCraig Childs
ISBN0316610690
The "essence of the American desert," as the subtitle of Craig Childs's book has it, is water. A desert, by definition, lacks it, but when water does come, it comes in torrential, sometimes devastating abundance. Childs, a thirtysomething desert rat with a vast knowledge of the Southwest's remote...
Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness
AuthorDoug Peacock
ISBN0805045430
For nearly twenty years, alone and unarmed, author Doug Peacock traversed the rugged mountains of Montana and Wyoming tracking the magnificent grizzly. His thrilling narrative takes us into the bear's habitat, where we observe directly this majestic animal's behavior, from hunting strategies,...
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
AuthorTimothy Egan
ISBN0618969020
How a lone man's epic obsession led to one of America's greatest cultural treasures: Prize-winning writer Timothy Egan tells the riveting, cinematic story behind the most famous photographs in Native American history -- and the driven, brilliant man who made them.

Edward Curtis was charismatic,...
Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer
AuthorDavid Roberts
Finding Everett Ruess by David Roberts, with a foreword by Jon Krakauer, is the definitive biography of the artist, writer, and eloquent celebrator of the wilderness whose bold solo explorations of the American West and mysterious disappearance in the Utah desert at age 20 have earned him a large...
The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West
AuthorEdward Abbey
ISBN0452265622
The Journey Home ranges from the surreal cityscapes of Hoboken and Manhattan to the solitary splendor of the deserts and mountains of the Southwest. It is alive with ranchers, dam builders, kissing bugs, and mountain lions. In a voice edged with chagrin, Edward Abbey offers a portrait of the American...
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