John Wesley Powell was both an adventurer and a scientist. Perhaps that’s exactly what we need now to end the Colorado River ...

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Despite losing an arm in the US Civil War, John Wesley Powell was one of the great explorers of the American West, and made history as the man who mapped the Grand Canyon. Untold is a free collection ...

John Wesley Powell (March 24, 1834 – September 23, 1902) was a U.S. soldier, geologist, explorer of the American West, professor at Illinois Wesleyan University, and director of major scientific and ...

Between 1867 and 1880 John Wesley Powell made collections of material culture items from several Numic-speaking Indian groups in the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau regions of the western United ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). One-armed, lavishly bearded and as tough as bedrock, John Wesley Powell was the leader of the first river passage through the Grand ...