1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996392530503316

Autore

Fisher Payne <1616-1693.>

Titolo

Marston-Moor: sive De obsidione prælioque Eboracensi carmen; [[electronic resource] ] : cum quibusdam miscellaneis operâ studióque / / Pagani Piscatoris elucubratis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Londini [i.e. London], : Typis Thomæ Newcomb, M.DC.L. [1650]

Descrizione fisica

[16], 70, [36] p

Soggetti

Marston Moor, Battle of, 1644

Great Britain History Civil War, 1642-1649 Poetry Early works to 1800

Lingua di pubblicazione

Latino

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Pagani Piscatoris = Payne Fisher.

In verse.

Title page in red and black.

Signatures: A⁴ a⁴ B-O⁴ P²  (-P2).

The first leaf is blank except for signature-mark "A". Variant: A1 is a cancel, lacking signature-mark; the verso bears dedication to John Pulleyn.

"Miscellania quædam ejusdem autoris" has separate dated title page; register is continuous.

Annotation on Thomason copy: "Aprill.11.th".

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910213827803321

Autore

Adams Eilean <1923->

Titolo

Hell or high water : James White's disputed passage through Grand Canyon, 1867 / / Eilean Adams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Logan : , : Utah State University Press, , 2001

©2001

ISBN

1-282-49050-8

9786612490507

0-87421-465-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 p.)

Disciplina

917.91/3044

Soggetti

Gold miners - Colorado

Grand Canyon (Ariz.) Description and travel

Grand Canyon (Ariz.) Discovery and exploration

Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) Description and travel

Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) Discovery and exploration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-217) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Prologue; 1 Callville; 2 Who Was James White?; 3 White's War; 4 The Road to Gold; 5 The Rescue; 6 Downriver Crier; 7 The News Spreads East; 8 General Palmer and the Railroad Survey; 9 Dr. Parry's Report; 10 Major Calhoun's Version; 11 Major Powell; 12 On the Road Again; 13 Powell's Conquest of the Grand Canyon; 14 Enter Robert Brewster Stanton; 15 Senate Document No. 42; 16 Battle of The Trail; 17 The White Family and Dock Marston; 18 Grand Canyon History: Discoveries and Rediscoveries; 19 Bob Euler and Square One; 20 In James White's Footsteps

21 Summary and Conclusions: Part A22 Summary and Conclusions: Part B; 23 Summary and Conclusions: Part C; 24 Resolution; Appendix A: James White's 1867 Letter; Appendix B: James White's 1917 Statement; Chapter Notes; References, Sources, and Related Subjects; Author's Note

Sommario/riassunto

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 s