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 ...

Tau-Gu, chief of the Paiutes overlooking virgin river with J.W. Powell age 39. grca 13806. circa 1873, National Park Service. John Wesley Powell and the Bureau of Ethnology Among many of the ...

Some have said I wasn’t there. When a one-armed Civil War veteran named John Wesley Powell made the first known descent through the Grand Canyon in 1869, from the Green River Station in Wyoming ...