John Wesley Powell is born on March 24 in Mount Morris, New York, the second son of Joseph and Mary Powell. The Confederacy fires on Fort Sumter on April 12. Enlists to fight in the Civil War on May 8 ...

VERNAL, Utah — The Green and Colorado rivers are significantly important to Utah history and they are a featured character in a new musical. "Let's Go! A John Wesley Powell Story" looks back on the ...

In May 1869, John Wesley Powell, a former Union Army major who had lost most of his right arm in the Battle of Shiloh, led 10 explorers in launching four heavy wooden boats loaded to the gunwales with ...

May 11 -- Powell supervises the unloading of his boats and supplies from a Union Pacific Rail car. May 24 -- Green River City, The ten-man crew pushes off on the Green River from Castle Rock in ...

SWEETWATER COUNTY — Two men descended from members of Major John Wesley Powell’s epic river expeditions of 1869 and 1871 down the Green and Colorado Rivers and the Grand Canyon recently visited the ...

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John Wesley Powell is best known as an explorer of the Colorado River and surrounding regions. But his greatest legacy may be the early warnings he sounded about settlement and water use in the West.

In an 1878 report to Congress and subsequent writings, explorer and scientist John Wesley Powell called for a science-based approach to effective management of agricultural land and freshwater ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The explorer, geologist, and anthropologist John Wesley Powell helped to shape national policies for the lands and ...

John Wesley Powell John Wesley Powell left us to be with the lord on September 15, 2005. He was 84 years old. Wes was born January 31, 1921. He earned a Purple Heart while serving in World War II in ...

Wesley Powell Jr., 72, passed away on June 19, 2016, in Erlanger Hospital. He was a member of Westwood Baptist Church. Wes grew up in Rossville, Ga. He enjoyed woodworking and was a trained machinist, ...