The expedition loses a third of its food supply ... August 8 -- Redwall Cavern, John Wesley Powell: "The water sweeps rapidly in this elbow of river, and has cut its way under the rock ...

John Wesley Powell is born on March 24 in Mount Morris ... Sets off on his first scientific expedition to Colorado on June 1. His wife Emma is one of the party of 12. On this trip she becomes ...

In 1869, Major John Wesley Powell led the first expedition through the Grand Canyon, navigating the Colorado River with a crew of untrained frontiersmen. Facing challenges such as starvation and ...

When a one-armed Civil War veteran named John Wesley Powell made the ... According to Powell’s report, written five years after the expedition, the boys saw the rapids ahead as sure death.

Surely the ghost of John Wesley Powell is out there somewhere, shouting a hurrah for his two new companions in the annals of heroic one-armed geology. When Powell led a three-boat expedition ...

"Men on Boats" will offer spectators "a wild ride down the Colorado River with a satirical take on the 1869 John Wesley Powell expedition. "The action-packed play relates the true story of how the ...