John Wesley North And The Reform Frontier and 7 similar items

John Wesley North and the Reform Frontier. By Merlin Stonehouse. Published 1965 by University of Minnesota Press. Hardcover, no dj, illustrations, index, 272 pp., 8vo. Civil War veteran and American adventurer John Wesley Powell wandered all over the American west and southwest, running the rapids of the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon at the age of 35. He was head of the U.S. Geological Survey between 1881 and 1894; and founded and was the first director of the American Bureau of Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution. Condition: Ex-Libris exterior and interior markings. Book is complete, and intact with sturdy binding. Interior pages are in very good condition. Cover has some edge and corner wear, rub marks and a few soil spots on front board.