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1947 · 8276 — Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society 1947 Volumes XV and XVI; XVII of the Utah Historical Quarterly. First edition thus. 2 volumes 1947; 1948-49. Introduction by Dale Morgan. Pp. xiii 1 269 8 540. 20 photographic plates and portraits 7 maps mostly folding. Notes indexes. Maroon cloth gilt. Owner's name on free endpaper of second part. A very fine set. Volume XV presents hitherto unknown and unpublished journals of the first and second Powell exploring expeditions down the Green and Colorado rivers including the journals of George Y. Bradley John C. Sumner and Major J. W. Powell 1869 and the journal of Francis M. Bishop 1870-72; with these are included an account of early Colorado river exploration biographical sketches of Major Powell's men and contemporary newspaper accounts of their activities. Volumes XVI and XVII bound together continue the journals of the Powell expeditions. "This volume looks to the larger significance and fruits of this work and exploration and discovery for the second expedition was what the first not a carefully constituted and admirably equipped scientific organization" Morgan. Included are the journals of Stephen Vandiver Jones John F. Steward and Walter Clement Powell edited respectively by Dr. Herbert E. Gregory William Culp Darrah and Charles Kelly. Also included is W. C. Powell's account of the Hopi Towns; and biographical sketches of Powell's men Beaman Fennemore Hillers Dellenbaugh Johnson and Hattan by William Culp Darrah. Utah State Historical Society hardcover books