Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author John Ross discusses John Powell's contributions including those in Geology, Ethnology and Geomorphology.
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 ...
Despite losing an arm in the US Civil War, John Wesley Powell was one of the great explorers of the American West, and made history as the man who mapped the Grand Canyon. Untold is a free collection ...