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John Wesley Powell (March 24, 1834 – September 23, 1902) [1] was an American geologist, U.S. Army soldier, explorer of the American West, professor at Illinois Wesleyan University, and director of major scientific and cultural institutions.
19 Σεπ 2024 · On April 6, 1862, at the Battle of Shiloh in western Tennessee, Powell was struck in the right forearm by a minié ball—a lead bullet with a conical head—and field surgeons amputated the shattered part of the limb two days later.
4 Ιαν 2014 · At Shiloh he was shot by a rifle bullet, lost an arm and almost died. Nerve damage would cause him great pain for the rest of his life. Powell launched his expedition after becoming obsessed...
26 Δεκ 2018 · Suspended by a pair of long underwear, the endangered man had only one arm. All he could do was hang on with his left hand until his companion pulled him to safety. The date was July 7, 1869. The one-armed man was John Wesley Powell, director of the Colorado River Exploring Expedition.
Until his own voluntary retirement from the Survey in 1894, Powell also was the head of the Bureau of Ethnology which he continued to run until his death in 1902 despite failing health mainly due to his amputated arm which was a great source of periodic pain. Though between 1894 and 1902 Powell spent increasingly less time running the Bureau ...
Powell died from a cerebral hemorrhage at his summer home in Haven, Maine on September 23, 1902.
By this trip, Powell, a 35-year-old professor of natural history, apparently unhampered by the lack of his right forearm (amputated after the Battle of Shiloh), opened up the last unknown part of the continental United States and brought to a climax the era of western exploration.
