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Nuestra Cultura: Spanish Language Cultural Club

2nd Wednesday of each month

All materials and discussion will be conducted in Spanish. All who are interested in using and/or growing their Spanish skills are welcome!

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1) Beyond the hundredth meridian: John Wesley Powell and the second opening of the West

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Stegner, Wallace Earle

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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...

2) The exploration of the Colorado River and its canyons

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Powell, John Wesley

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Civil War veteran John Wesley Powell's account of his treacherous exploration of the Colorado River in 1869 with nine other men, in which he discusses the region's terrain, its Native American inhabitants, and such dangerous parts of the journey as famine and mutiny.

3) The promise of the Grand Canyon: John Wesley Powell's perilous journey and his vision for the American West

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Ross, John F

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When John Wesley Powell became the first person to navigate the entire Colorado River, through the Grand Canyon, he completed what Lewis and Clark had begun nearly 70 years earlier--the final exploration of continental America. The son of an abolitionist preacher, a Civil War hero (who lost an arm at Shiloh), and a passionate naturalist and geologist, in 1869 Powell tackled the vast and dangerous gorge carved by the Colorado River and known today...

4) Major Impossible

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Hale, Nathan

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John Wesley Powell always had the spirit of adventure in him. As a young man, he traveled all over the United States exploring. When the Civil War began, Powell went to fight for the Union, and even after he lost most of his right arm, he continued to fight until the war was over. In 1869, he embarked with the Colorado River Exploring Expedition-- ten men in four boats-- to float through the Grand Canyon. Ten explorers went in, but only six came out....

5) Down the great unknown: John Wesley Powell's 1869 journey of discovery and tragedy through the Grand Canyon

Author

Dolnick, Edward

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On May 24, 1869, a one-armed Civil War veteran named John Wesley Powell and a ragtag band of nine mountain men embarked on the last great quest in the American West. No one had ever explored the fabled Grand Canyon; to adventurers of that era it was a region almost as mysterious as Atlantis -- and as perilous. The ten men set out down the mighty Colorado River in wooden rowboats. Six survived. Drawing on rarely examined diaries and journals, Down...

6) Powell of the Colorado

Author

Darrah, William Culp

7) Powell, John Wesley

8) The man who rediscovered America: a biography of John Wesley Powell

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Terrell, John Upton

9) John Wesley Powell: conquest of the canyon

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Carlson, Vada F

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A biography of the geologist who led the first expedition down the canyons of the Green and Colorado rivers in 1869.

10) John Wesley Powell: his life and legacy

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Aton, James M

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11) The Colorado River Region and John Wesley Powell: a collection of papers honoring Powell on the 100th anniversary of his expedition of the Colorado River, 1869-1969

12) The last canyon

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Vernon, John

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A historical novel about John Wesley Powell's nineteenth-century expedition through the Grand Canyon. In 1869, John Wesley Powell set out on a voyage of exploration through the Grand Canyon, the last great expedition of discovery in US history. In this vivid novel, John Vernon intertwines two stories-that of Powell and his crew, and that of a band of Paiute Indians, known as the Shivwits, who lived on the north rim of the canyon. As the novel moves...

13) In search of the Grand Canyon

Author

Fraser, Mary Ann

14) John Wesley Powell and the anthropology of the Canyon Country

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Fowler, Don D

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15) The Professor goes West: Illinois Wesleyan University -- reports of Major John Wesley Powell's exploration, 1867-1874

16) In the footsteps of John Wesley Powell: an album of comparative photographs of the Green and Colorado Rivers, 1871-1872 and 1968

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Stephens, Hal G

17) Powell's Canyon voyage

Author

Rusho, W. L

18) John Wesley Powell: voyage of discovery : the story behind the scenery

Author

Murphy, Dan

19) John Wesley Powell's exploration of the Colorado River

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Rabbitt, Mary C

20) Down the Colorado: John Wesley Powell, the one-armed explorer

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Ray, Deborah Kogan

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After losing part of his arm in the Civil War, John Wesley Powell's passion to explore the natural world would not be deterred and he kept his dream of exploring the vast Colorado River and all its wonders, including the Grand Canyon.

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1) Beyond the hundredth meridian: John Wesley Powell and the second opening of the West

2) The exploration of the Colorado River and its canyons

3) The promise of the Grand Canyon: John Wesley Powell's perilous journey and his vision for the American West

4) Major Impossible

5) Down the great unknown: John Wesley Powell's 1869 journey of discovery and tragedy through the Grand Canyon

6) Powell of the Colorado

7) Powell, John Wesley

8) The man who rediscovered America: a biography of John Wesley Powell

9) John Wesley Powell: conquest of the canyon

10) John Wesley Powell: his life and legacy

11) The Colorado River Region and John Wesley Powell: a collection of papers honoring Powell on the 100th anniversary of his expedition of the Colorado River, 1869-1969

12) The last canyon

13) In search of the Grand Canyon

14) John Wesley Powell and the anthropology of the Canyon Country

15) The Professor goes West: Illinois Wesleyan University -- reports of Major John Wesley Powell's exploration, 1867-1874

16) In the footsteps of John Wesley Powell: an album of comparative photographs of the Green and Colorado Rivers, 1871-1872 and 1968

17) Powell's Canyon voyage

18) John Wesley Powell: voyage of discovery : the story behind the scenery

19) John Wesley Powell's exploration of the Colorado River

20) Down the Colorado: John Wesley Powell, the one-armed explorer

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