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Into the Unknown: Major Powell's River Journey
Book by Anderson, Peter
32 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 1992
About the author
Peter Anderson
10 booksDuring the late 1970s and early 80s, Peter Anderson lived in the Upper Arkansas River Valley in Colorado. As a journalist covering a beat just east of the Continental Divide, he reported on everything from school board meetings to the crowning of the rodeo queen for the Mountain Mail, the Pueblo Chieftain, and the Denver Post.
In the late 1980s, while editing the Owen Wister Review and earning an MA in American Studies at the University of Wyoming, he won the Academy of American Poets Award at UW as well as a first place fiction award from the Wyoming Writers Association. After working as publications manager for Canyonlands Natural History Association in Moab, Utah, he taught writing and literature at Salt Lake Community College, worked with state and federal land agencies to develop interpretive texts for trail and museum exhibits, and worked seasonally as a ranger in the High Uinta Wilderness. He also won a grant from the Utah Arts Council to begin work on a collection of essays. During that time he also wrote a dozen children’s books (Falcon Press; Children's Press; Franklin-Watts) including a series on American conservationists, and A Grand Canyon Journey: Tracing Time in Stone (Children's Press; 1996).
In Salt Lake City, he began attending Quaker meeting. After receiving a Cooper Scholarship to attend Earlham School of Religion (ESR), a Quaker seminary, he and his wife Grace left Utah for a farmhouse south of Richmond, Indiana. He graduated with an M.Div. from ESR in 2000, where he subsequently taught writing for several years and coordinated an annual writing conference.
From 2003-2009, Peter served as editor of Pilgrimage Magazine. From 2005-2008, he was the poetry editor for the Mountain Gazette, a widely read publication in the Rocky Mountain region. His collection of essays, First Church of the Higher Elevations (Denver; Ghost Road Press; 2005) explores the ecology of story, spirituality, and landscape. In 2009, he edited Telling it Real: The Best of Pilgrimage Magazine (2009; Pilgrimage Press), an anthology of poetry and nonfiction organized around the themes of story, place, spirit, and witness. More recently, his poems have appeared in several anthologies including New Poets of the American West (Many Voices Press; 2010).
Currently, Peter is working on a collection of essays on various perceptions and understandings of geographical space in the American Southwest. He teaches in the English department at Adams State College in Alamosa, Colorado and lives with his family on the western slope of the Sangre de Cristo Range in Colorado’s San Luis Valley.
In the late 1980s, while editing the Owen Wister Review and earning an MA in American Studies at the University of Wyoming, he won the Academy of American Poets Award at UW as well as a first place fiction award from the Wyoming Writers Association. After working as publications manager for Canyonlands Natural History Association in Moab, Utah, he taught writing and literature at Salt Lake Community College, worked with state and federal land agencies to develop interpretive texts for trail and museum exhibits, and worked seasonally as a ranger in the High Uinta Wilderness. He also won a grant from the Utah Arts Council to begin work on a collection of essays. During that time he also wrote a dozen children’s books (Falcon Press; Children's Press; Franklin-Watts) including a series on American conservationists, and A Grand Canyon Journey: Tracing Time in Stone (Children's Press; 1996).
In Salt Lake City, he began attending Quaker meeting. After receiving a Cooper Scholarship to attend Earlham School of Religion (ESR), a Quaker seminary, he and his wife Grace left Utah for a farmhouse south of Richmond, Indiana. He graduated with an M.Div. from ESR in 2000, where he subsequently taught writing for several years and coordinated an annual writing conference.
From 2003-2009, Peter served as editor of Pilgrimage Magazine. From 2005-2008, he was the poetry editor for the Mountain Gazette, a widely read publication in the Rocky Mountain region. His collection of essays, First Church of the Higher Elevations (Denver; Ghost Road Press; 2005) explores the ecology of story, spirituality, and landscape. In 2009, he edited Telling it Real: The Best of Pilgrimage Magazine (2009; Pilgrimage Press), an anthology of poetry and nonfiction organized around the themes of story, place, spirit, and witness. More recently, his poems have appeared in several anthologies including New Poets of the American West (Many Voices Press; 2010).
Currently, Peter is working on a collection of essays on various perceptions and understandings of geographical space in the American Southwest. He teaches in the English department at Adams State College in Alamosa, Colorado and lives with his family on the western slope of the Sangre de Cristo Range in Colorado’s San Luis Valley.
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February 1, 2012
Do you ever wonder you first mapped out the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon? Well, Civil War veteran Major John Wesley Powell did.. and with only one arm. H not only followed this adventurous river numerous times to learn the river and canyons for more precise mapping, but also to catalogue plants and wildlife.
A great introductory book for the elementary school-age child to start his/her unit study into the western expansion of America.
A great introductory book for the elementary school-age child to start his/her unit study into the western expansion of America.
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