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 |
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 |
Great Unconformity (redirect from Powell’s 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |