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Down the Colorado

Title
Down the Colorado / by Robert Brewster Stanton ; edited and with an introduction by Dwight L. Smith.
Author
Stanton, Robert Brewster, 1846-1922
Publication
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [©1965]

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Additional Authors
Smith, Dwight L. (Dwight La Vern), 1918-2010
Description
xxv, 237 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm.
Summary
Story of an engineering survey trip in 1889 to determine the feasibility of building a railroad along the River from Colorado to California.
Series Statement
The American exploration and travel series, 45
Uniform Title
American exploration and travel series ; 45.
Subject
  • Rivers
  • Discoveries in geography
  • Exploration > American
  • Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
  • United States > Discovery and exploration
  • North America > Colorado River
  • United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliographical footnotes.
Contents
Denver, Colorado Canyon and Pacific Railroad survey -- A railroad proposed through the canyons -- The survey work -- Cataract Canyon -- A sad interruption -- The second attempt -- Marble Canyon -- The Grand Canyon of the Colorado.
LCCN
65010109
OCLC
  • ocm00400243
  • 400243
  • SCSB-582229
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library