| Hell or High Water: James White's Disputed Passage Through Grand Canyon, 1867 Contributor(s): Adams, Eilean (Author) |
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ISBN: 0874214254 ISBN-13: 9780874214253 Publisher: Utah State University Press OUR PRICE: $26.06 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2001 Annotation: 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, Nevada. Hell or High Water is the first full account of White's story and how it became distorted and he disparaged over time. Eilean Adams, White's granddaughter, over decades and with the assistance of notable Colorado River historians, gradually uncovered the record of James White's adventure. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel | United States - West - Mountain (az, Co, Id, Mt, Nm, Nv, Ut, Wy) |
| Dewey: 917.913 |
| LCCN: 2001004262 |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 6.01" W x 9" (0.73 lbs) 226 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southwest U.S. - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Geographic Orientation - Arizona - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
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| Publisher Description: Although John Wesley Powell and party are usually given credit forthe first river descent through the Grand Canyon, the ghost of JamesWhite has haunted those claims. White was a Colorado prospector, who, almost two years before Powell's journey, washed up on a makeshift raftat Callville, Nevada. His claim to have entered the Colorado above theSan Juan River with another man (soon drowned) as they fled from Indianswas widely disseminated and believed for a time, but Powell and hissuccessors on the river publically discounted it. Colorado River runnersand historians have since debated whether White's passage through GrandCanyon even could have happened. Hell or High Water is the first full account of White's storyand how it became distorted and he disparaged over time. It is also afascinating detective story, recounting how White's granddaughter, Eilean Adams, over decades and with the assistance of a couple ofnotable Colorado River historians who believed he could have done whathe claimed, gradually uncovered the record of James White's adventureand put together a plausible narrative of how and why he ended upfloating helplessly down a turbulent river, entrenched in massivecliffs, with nothing but a driftwood raft to carry him throug |