Hell Or High Water James White's Disputed Passage through Grand Canyon, 1867

• Main Author: Adams, Eilean (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: University Press of Colorado 2001
• Subjects: Humanities; History of the Americas; General & world history; The Earth: natural history general; History; Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Although John Wesley Powell and party are usually given credit for the first river descent through the Grand Canyon, the ghost of James White has haunted those claims. White was a Colorado prospector, who, almost two years before Powell's journey, washed up on a makeshift raft at Callville, Nev...