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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

And I wonder whether, if we had listened to John Wesley Powell’s advice—and not mostly ignored his prophetic warnings—the Treasure Valley’s lost farmland might still exist. This year marks ...

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 ...

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 ...