John Wesley Powell (March 24, 1834 - September 23, 1902) 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. Wikipedia
In 1856 when he was 22 years old, he traveled the Mississippi River alone in a row boat from the Falls of St. Anthony to its mouth. The following year, he rowed the length of the Ohio River from Pittsburg to its mouth, and in 1858 he traveled the Illinois www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/rivers/HOFpowell.html
...Photos John Wesley Powell Photograph Index Grand Canyon National Park Museum Collection for more info about these images, email grca_museum_collection@nps.gov John ... www.nps.gov/grca/photos/powell/index.htm
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