colorado river (colo.-mexico)

Recounts the adventures of seventeen-year-old Fred Dellenbaugh, the youngest member of the second Powell expedition, which explored the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon in 1871-2.

Traveling illegally at night on the Colorado River with a mysterious cargo, two boys are shipwrecked and must depend for survival on their own ingenuity and a wild boy they find living along the river.

Draws from diaries and journals to tell the story of the 1869 expedition led by Civil War veteran John Wesley Powell to explore the Grand Canyon.

Chronicles the life of explorer John Wesley Powell, discussing how his expeditions put the Colorado River on American maps, discovered the Grand Canyon, and helped open the American west up to other settlers.

Presents the diary of the Civil War veteran who led an expedition down the Colorado River to explore the depths of the Grand Canyon.

A biography of the geologist who first explored the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon.

Despite some reservations, sixteen-year-old Jessie joins her companions from the previous year's adventure on the Colorado River for a legal rafting trip through the Grand Canyon.

Chronicles the building of the Hoover Dam from its early planning stages to the present.

Describes the course of the Colorado River, its impact on the land through which it flows and on the people living nearby, dams and canals used to harness the river's water, and controversies surrounding its use.

The story of the mapping of the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon. Includes related activities.