Hell or High Water James White s Disputed Passage through Grand Canyon 1867 1st Edition by Eilean Adams ISBN 978-0874214253 0874214254
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ISBN 10: 0874214254
ISBN 13: 978-0874214253
Author: Eilean Adams
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. His claim to have entered the Colorado above the San Juan River with another man (soon drowned) as they fled from Indians was widely disseminated and believed for a time, but Powell and his successors on the river publically discounted it. Colorado River runners and historians have since debated whether White’s passage through Grand Canyon even could have happened.
Hell or High Water is the first full account of White’s story and how it became distorted and he disparaged over time. It is also a fascinating detective story, recounting how White’s granddaughter, Eilean Adams, over decades and with the assistance of a couple of notable Colorado River historians who believed he could have done what he claimed, gradually uncovered the record of James White’s adventure and put together a plausible narrative of how and why he ended up floating helplessly down a turbulent river, entrenched in massive cliffs, with nothing but a driftwood raft to carry him through.
Table of contents:
CHAPTER 1
Callville II
CHAPTER 2
Who Was James White?
CHAPTER 3
White’s War
CHAPTER 4
The Road to Gold
CHAPTER 5
The Rescue
CHAPTER 6
Downriver Crier
CHAPTER 7
The News Spreads East
CHAPTER 8
General Palmer and the Railroad Survey
CHAPTER 9
Dr. Parry’s Report
CHAPTER 10
Major Calhoun’s Version
CHAPTER 11
Major Powell
CHAPTER 12
On the Road Again
CHAPTER 13
Powell’s Conquest of the Grand Canyon
CHAPTER 14
Enter Robert Brewster Stanton
CHAPTER 15
Senate Document No. 42 III
CHAPTER 16
Battle of the Trail
CHAPTER 17
The White Family and Dock Marston
CHAPTER 18
Grand Canyon History: Discoveries and Rediscoveries
CHAPTER 19
Bob Euler and Square One
CHAPTER 20
In James White’s Footsteps
CHAPTER 21
Summary and Conclusions: Part A
CHAPTER 22
Summary and Conclusions: Part B
CHAPTER 23
Summary and Conclusions: Part C
CHAPTER 24
Resolution
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