From the "dean of Western writers" (The New York Times) and the
Pulitzer Prize winning-author of Angle of Repose and Crossing to
Safety, a fascinating look at the old American West and the man who
prophetically warned against the dangers of settling it
In Beyond the Hundredth Meridian, Wallace Stegner recounts the
sucesses 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
prophet without honor who had a profound understanding of the American
West, Powell warned long ago of the dangers economic exploitation would
pose to the West and spent a good deal of his life overcoming Washington
politics in getting his message across. Only now, we may recognize just
how accurate a prophet he was.