John Wesley Powell and the Bureau of Ethnology Among many of the Native American people of the West, the scientific explorer John Wesley Powell, a former Army Major who had lost his right arm in ...

John Wesley Powell by Edmund Clarence Messer, 1889 NPG, gift of Mrs. John Wesley Powell. On January 17, 1890, John Wesley Powell strode into a Senate committee room in Washington, D.C., to testify.

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. This map, with its accompanying ...

The fragile artifacts of John Wesley Powell’s famed expedition to Utah will be on display, but just for one day Earlier this year, University of Utah geology professor Marjorie Chan was giving a ...

John Wesley Powell describes the feeling of safely emerging from the Grand Canyon on Aug. 29, 1869. The following day, the expedition’s remaining two boats would reach their final destination ...

John Wesley Powell and his men traveled down the Grand Canyon 150 years ago. Since then the canyon has experienced incredible change.

In 1869, John Wesley Powell led nine men and four boats on the first documented descent through the Grand Canyon. As is made clear in this excerpt from 'The Promise of the Grand Canyon,' it was a ...

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 ...

Celebrate the 150th anniversary of John Wesley Powell’s historic expedition with OARS, which specializes in whitewater rafting and other outdoor tours. The itinerary on the Green River will ...