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Account of the passage through the Great Canon of the Colorado of the West, from above the mouth of Green River to the head of steamboat navigation at Callville in the months of August and September, 1867 . . . Reported Jan. 6, 1868 to J.D. Perry, Esq., President of the Union Pacific Railway. . . by. . . [Extracted from] Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis, Vol. II; First through the Grand Canyon. Foreword by Otis Marston. [Early California Travel Series XLV].
[GRAND CANYON]. WHITE, James; PARRY, C.[harles] C.[hristopher]; LINGENFELTER, R.[ichard] E.
Editore: Academy of Science of St. Louis, Transactions; Glen Dawson, [Westernlore Press], [1868]; 1958., [St. Louis, MO]; Los Angeles, CA:, 1868
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Aggiungi al carrelloTwo pieces. 1st - 12mo. pp. 499-503, [1]. Extracted & closely cropped, spine backed in black cloth tape, paper-repair to front hinge, very slight chipping, still G; 12mo. 119, [1] pp. With numerous plates. Quarter-beige cloth over blue boards, printed spine label (minor dustsoiling), still NF copy. First edition, extracted, of C.C. Parry's interview and letter concerning the claims of James White's famed first descent through the Grand Canyon on a crude raft, and surviving to be picked up at Calville, together with "First edition, 1 of 300 copies printed," of Lingenfelter's analysis of the controversy between White's supporter claims, and supporter's claims of Powell's expedition two years later. Parry's was the first widely published record of James White's account of 1867, taken from his oral interview in Hardyville, Arizona Territory. See: Earle E. Spamer, "It was this way. . ." The Grand Canyon's Indubitable James White & John Hance, An Introduction and Annotated Bibliography, Raven's Perch Media (2023). …