The strikingly beautiful canyon that long existed before engineers dammed the river to create Lake Powell is coming back, little by little. John Wesley Powell, who named it Glen Canyon during his ...

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 ...

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 ... north of the Grand Canyon known by the Indians ...

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 ...

Its first director, John Wesley Powell (1834-1902), helped shape the field of ethnology ... Museum of American History Engraved woodblock of "Light House Rock in the Canyon of Desolation" National ...