A River Running West
The Life of John Wesley Powell
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10028624 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Karl Jacoby (Brown University, corresponding author), Donald Worster, Kevin J Fernlund |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 89 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 234-234 |
| Publication date | 2002-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2700842 |
| OpenAlex | W2316324696 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
William Henry Holmes and the Rediscovery of the American West. By Kevin J. Fernlund. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000. xx, 300 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8263-2127-5.) Although A River Running West represents a remarkable scholarly achievement by a distinguished American historian, it inevitably invites comparison with Wallace Stegner's Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West. Published in 1954, Stegner's biography of Powell has become a classic of western Americana. It is a measure of Donald Worster's ambition and reach as a historian that, in revisiting the terrain that Stegner surveyed so successfully a generation before, he nonetheless manages to offer new insights on a potentially familiar subject. Worster's and Stegner's biographies have much in common. Both A River Running West and Beyond the Hundredth Meridian focus on Powell's public life. Both detail the one-armed explorer's celebrated navigations of the raging Colorado River in 1869 and 1871, his public lectures and published reports, and his climb to—and fall from—power in the emerging federal bureaucracy of the late nineteenth century. Neither sheds much light on the private Powell: his inner psychology, his apparent crisis of faith, or his strained relationships with his wife, daughter, and other family members
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| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,82 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2024 (21) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |