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John Wesley Powell

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Born: March 23 1834

Died: 2222 09 19021902

John Wesley Powell was a U. S. soldier, geologist, and explorer of the American West. He is famous for the 1869 Powell Geographic Expedition, a three-month river trip down the Green and Colorado rivers that included the first passage through the Grand Canyon. He studied at Illinois College, Wheaton College, and Oberlin College, acquiring a knowledge of Ancient Greek and Latin but never graduating. He was elected to the Illinois Natural History Society in 1859. Due to his deep Protestant beliefs, and his social commitments, his loyalties remained with the Union, and the cause of abolishing slavery. He enlisted in the Union army as a topographer and military engineer. In 1881 he became the second director of the U. S. Geological Survey, a post he held until 1894. He was also the director of the Bureau of Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution until his death.

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John Wesley Powell

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Books from John Wesley Powell

The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons

Canyons of the Colorado

Down the Colorado: Diary of the First Trip Through the Grand Canyon

Canyons of the Colorado

The Arid Lands

Seeing Things Whole: The Essential John Wesley Powell

First through the Grand Canyon

Exploration of the Colorado River

On the Evolution of Language First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 1-16

Native American Studies: History Books, Mythology, Culture & Linguistic Studies (22 Book Collection): History of the Great Tribes, Military History, Language, ... Navajo, Zuñi, Apache, Seminole and Eskimo

Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and Its Tributaries: Explored in 1869, 1870, 1871, and 1872, Under the Direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.

On the Evolution of Language: John Wesley Powell Explores the Development of Communication by John Wesley Powell

Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-96, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

Canyons of the Colorado (Esprios Classics)

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 059

Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891

Twenty-Third Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1901-1902 (Classic Reprint)

On Limitations To The Use Of Some Anthropologic Data

Works of John Wesley Powell

Report On the Lands of the Arid Region of the United States: With a More Detailed Account of the Lands of Utah: With Maps