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[Contra Costa Times] - Fraser, who has written more than 60 books for youths, has been awarded the School Library Journal Best Book of the Year and a Book Links Book of the Year for her book "In Search Of The Grand Canyon: Down The Colorado With John Wesley Powell.
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[National Geographic] - The Colorado Plateau was really the domain of a competing survey, which went through several name changes but was universally referred to as the Powell Survey, led by a magnetic one-armed Civil War veteran named John Wesley Powell. In the early
A Little Adventurous Cuisine (very little) and on to Zion Canyon
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[Wicked Local (blog)] - John Wesley Powell, after his trip through Grand and Glen Canyons in 1869, continued his survey of the region in Zion. His initial studies exposed how the Colorado Plateau uplifted while the rivers continued to cut through the sedimentary rocks. Zion
Google News: Calf Creek preserves grandeur of canyon country
[Las Vegas Review-Journal] - The national monument remains a remote area largely inaccessible except by way of a few primitive roads, difficult trails and dangerous rivers and streams that feed into the Colorado River. Much of it lies unchanged since John Wesley Powell's historic
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