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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West PB_Gift_Guide and mastery--and why it isFrom the dean of Western writers (The New York Times) and the Pulitzer Prize winningauthor of Angle of Repose and Crossing to Safety, a fascinating look at the old American West and the man who prophetically warned against the dangers of settling it In Beyond the Hundredth Meridian, Wallace Stegner recounts the sucesses and frustrations of John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, the Grand