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The Powell Geographic Expedition of 1869, led by American naturalist John Wesley Powell, was the first thorough cartographic and scientific investigation of long segments of the Green and Colorado rivers in the southwestern United States, including the first recorded passage of white men through the entirety of the Grand Canyon.
He is famous for his 1869 geographic expedition, a three-month river trip down the Green and Colorado rivers, including the first official U.S. government-sponsored passage through the Grand Canyon.
In May 1869, accompanied by nine men, the scientific explorer John Wesley Powell left Green River City on the first expedition by boat through the Grand Canyon.
19 Σεπ 2024 · John Wesley Powell was an American explorer, geologist, and ethnologist, best known for his exploration of the upper portion of the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon. Powell was the fourth child of English immigrants Joseph Powell, a tailor, farmer, and itinerant Methodist preacher, and Mary.
He is famous for his 1869 geographic expedition, a three-month river trip down the Green River and the upper portion of the Colorado River, including the first official U.S. government-sponsored passage through the Grand Canyon. Powell was born in Mount Morris, New York, on March 24, 1834, the fourth child of Joseph and Mary Dean Powell.
26 Δεκ 2018 · The one-armed man was John Wesley Powell, director of the Colorado River Exploring Expedition. An artist’s version of Powelll’s dramatic rescue in the Grand Canyon, July 1869. Scribner’s Monthly.
John Wesley Powell and party in the Grand Canyon Painting by Henry C. Pitz showing John Wesley Powell and his party going through the Grand Canyon, presumably during the historic 1869 Colorado River expedition.
