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William deBuys

William deBuys is a historian, conservationist, and writer based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is the author of Salt Dreams: Land and Water in Low-Down California and River of Traps: a Village Life, for which he was a Pulitzer prize finalist. 

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The Essential John Wesley Powell

John Wesley Powell was an American original. He was the last of the nation's great continental explorers and the first of a new breed of public servant: part scientist, part social reformer, part institution builder.