Saturday, Dec 8, 2018 5:03 AM Updated Monday, Dec. 10, 2018 9:13 PM In the Southwest, river runners and river rats have the same great, great grandfather. Our patriarch is the one-armed Maj. John ...
Biography -- Interpreting Powell's writings on exploration, land planning, and anthropology -- Interpretations of Powell on irrigation -- Conclusion https://siris ...
Biography of John Wesley Powell, explorer, geologist and anthropologist, who served as director of the Smithsonian's Bureau of Ethnology from its founding in 1879 until his death in 1902. Written by ...
In May 1869, John Wesley Powell, a former Union Army major who had lost most of his right arm in the Battle of Shiloh, led 10 explorers in launching four heavy wooden boats loaded to the gunwales with ...
Bob Silbernagel Jul 15, 2019 Jul 15, 2019 Updated Jul 15, 2019 George Young Bradley was ecstatic on July 16, 1869. "Hurra! Hurra! Hurra!" he wrote in his journal that day. "Grand River came upon us, ...
In 1861, U.S. Army officer and explorer Joseph Ives wrote about the Grand Canyon: “... after entering it, there is nothing to do but leave. Ours has been the first, and will doubtless be the last, ...
John Wesley Powell is born on March 24 in Mount Morris, New York, the second son of Joseph and Mary Powell. The Confederacy fires on Fort Sumter on April 12. Enlists to fight in the Civil War on May 8 ...
On January 17, 1890, John Wesley Powell strode into a Senate committee room in Washington, D.C., to testify. He was hard to miss, one contemporary comparing him to a sturdy oak, gnarled and seamed ...
Mike Bezemek is the author and photographer of four books, many articles, and several blogs. By strange quirks of chance, he's chased adventures, jobs, degrees, and affordable living situations, with ...
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