Powell and his brother Walter spend the night on the mountain top where they watch the eclipse. After all their efforts, clouds obscure their views. August 8 -- Redwall Cavern, John Wesley Powell ...

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 ...

Its first director, John Wesley Powell (1834-1902), helped shape the field of ethnology and anthropology. Powell’s exploration work and the findings referenced in his Report of the Exploration of the ...

On January 17, 1890, the explorer and scientist John Wesley Powell testified to the U.S. Senate about the development of the western United States, and how water scarcity across that vast ...

John Wesley Powell stood only five feet six, had a shock of bristle-brush hair and an unruly tobacco-stained beard that splayed onto his chest. The right sleeve of his jacket hung empty ...