• Thumbnail for John Wesley Powell
    John Wesley Powell (March 24, 1834 – September 23, 1902) was an American geologist, U.S. Army soldier, explorer of the American West, professor at Illinois...
    41 KB (4,313 words) - 19:47, 21 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Powell Geographic Expedition of 1869
    The Powell Geographic Expedition of 1869, led by American naturalist John Wesley Powell, was the first thorough cartographic and scientific investigation...
    11 KB (737 words) - 11:26, 23 April 2023
  • The John Wesley Powell Award is a United States Geological Survey (USGS) honor award that recognizes an individual or group, not employed by the U.S. federal...
    10 KB (1,123 words) - 16:48, 18 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mount Carmel Junction, Utah
    Carmel art studio being built on the property. John Wesley Powell visited the area as part of the Powell Survey of 1872. He was the first European-American...
    12 KB (1,252 words) - 11:06, 19 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for Lake Powell
    managed by the National Park Service. The reservoir is named for John Wesley Powell, a civil war veteran who explored the river via three wooden boats...
    31 KB (3,313 words) - 20:34, 12 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Great Unconformity
    Siccar Point in Scotland,[failed verification] or that observed by John Wesley Powell in the Grand Canyon in 1869. Both instances are exceptional examples...
    22 KB (2,360 words) - 23:30, 29 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Report on the Lands of the Arid Region of the United States
    recommendation written by American explorer, geologist, and anthropologist John Wesley Powell, and first published in 1878. The work sought to create an equitable...
    12 KB (1,518 words) - 23:09, 3 March 2024
  • Vista Distribution. It tells the story of United States Army officer John Wesley Powell, who was the first to travel down the Colorado River, and the dangers...
    7 KB (726 words) - 19:09, 25 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Emma Dean Powell
    Harriet Emma Dean Powell (July 7, 1835 – March 13, 1924) was a botanist and ornithologist, and the wife of John Wesley Powell. She accompanied and cared...
    9 KB (893 words) - 21:41, 2 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Grand Canyon
    Retrieved June 21, 2022. "John Wesley Powell's Undertakings". American Experience. PBS. Retrieved June 21, 2022. "John Wesley Powell". U.S. Geological Survey...
    124 KB (13,394 words) - 20:31, 16 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cosmos Club
    501(c)(7) private social club in Washington, D.C., that was founded by John Wesley Powell in 1878 as a gentlemen's club for those interested in science. Among...
    34 KB (3,278 words) - 13:01, 9 March 2024
  • Jamaican athlete Barry Powell (footballer) (born 1954), English footballer Boog Powell (born 1941), popular nickname of John Wesley Powell, American baseball...
    13 KB (1,691 words) - 12:00, 9 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Colorado River
    charted the Colorado in the mid-19th century—one of which, led by John Wesley Powell, was the first to run the rapids of the Grand Canyon. Large-scale...
    257 KB (25,063 words) - 21:54, 12 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of the Grand Canyon area
    non-Native Americans to see the canyon. U.S. Army Major John Wesley Powell led the 1869 Powell Geographic Expedition through the canyon on the Colorado...
    44 KB (5,820 words) - 20:07, 15 April 2024
  • and teacher, sometimes called "John Powell" John Wesley Powell (1834–1902), American geologist and explorer John Powell (musician) (1882–1963), American...
    2 KB (309 words) - 20:42, 14 March 2024
  • Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 2001. Ross, John F. The Promise of the Grand Canyon: John Wesley Powell's Perilous Journey and His Vision for the American...
    40 KB (4,599 words) - 07:57, 30 April 2024
  • Colorado River and Its Canyons by John Wesley Powell is a classic of American exploration literature. It is about the Powell Geographic Expedition of 1869...
    5 KB (351 words) - 04:04, 30 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Penutian languages
    grouping (originally named Shahapwailutan by J. N. B. Hewitt and John Wesley Powell in 1894) which would consist of Klamath–Modoc, Molala, and the Sahaptian...
    23 KB (2,127 words) - 21:38, 29 April 2024
  • Jack Sumner (redirect from John C. Sumner)
    boatman, he was chosen by John Wesley Powell to lead the first boat of the expedition. He eventually had a falling out with Powell over differences in personality...
    11 KB (1,339 words) - 01:29, 17 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Wesley Powell
    Wesley Powell (October 13, 1915 – January 6, 1981) was an American lawyer and Republican politician from Hampton Falls, New Hampshire. Powell was born...
    4 KB (185 words) - 00:11, 9 December 2022
  • Thumbnail for Flaming Gorge Dam
    its name from a nearby section of the Green River canyon, named by John Wesley Powell in 1869. It was built by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation between 1958...
    27 KB (2,914 words) - 07:08, 15 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Base level
    lower limit for an erosion process. The modern term was introduced by John Wesley Powell in 1875. The term was subsequently appropriated by William Morris...
    7 KB (739 words) - 10:34, 20 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for United States Geological Survey
    After two years, King was succeeded by John Wesley Powell. 1879–1881: Clarence King 1881–1894: John Wesley Powell 1894–1907: Charles Doolittle Walcott 1907–1930:...
    34 KB (3,664 words) - 17:46, 1 April 2024
  • became known as the Wheeler Survey, along with the Clarence King and John Wesley Powell Surveys, and expeditions by Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden. In 1879, all...
    23 KB (3,053 words) - 21:48, 22 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sundance Kid
    Sam Bass, John Wesley Hardin, Butch Cassidy and Dave Rudabaugh and him forming a gang, then squaring off against two convicts recruited by John B. Jones...
    15 KB (1,564 words) - 09:24, 27 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Marble Canyon
    Marble Canyon is a misnomer because there is no marble there. Although John Wesley Powell knew this when he named the canyon, he thought the polished limestone...
    4 KB (399 words) - 17:20, 23 January 2024
  • Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West (1954), a biography of John Wesley Powell, the first white man to explore...
    33 KB (3,214 words) - 15:01, 7 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for John Jacob Astor
    John Jacob Astor (born Johann Jakob Astor; July 17, 1763 – March 29, 1848) was a German-born American businessman, merchant, real estate mogul, and investor...
    27 KB (3,051 words) - 21:34, 6 April 2024
  • John Wesley Powell (1834–1902) was an American geologist and geographer. Major Powell may also refer to: Colonel Powell (disambiguation), any of several...
    1 KB (223 words) - 10:33, 23 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Mount Shasta
    The summit was achieved (or nearly so) by John Muir, Josiah Whitney, Clarence King, and John Wesley Powell. In 1877, Muir wrote a dramatic popular article...
    42 KB (3,960 words) - 14:48, 27 April 2024