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John Wesley Powell
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John Wesley Powell
John Wesley Powell was an American geologist, U.S. Army soldier, explorer of the American West, professor at Illinois Wesleyan University, and director of major scientific and cultural institutions. He is famous for his 1869 geographic expedition, a three-month river trip down the Green and Colorado rivers, including the first official U.S. government-sponsored passage through the Grand Canyon.
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First through the Grand Canyon
John Wesley Powell · Horace Kephart
Report on the lands of the arid region of the United States, with a more detailed account of the lands of Utah
John Wesley Powell · Willis Drummond +3
Sixth annual report of the Bureau of ethnology. (1888 N 06 / 1884-1885)
John Wesley Powell · Franz Boas +3
Titan of Chasms: The Grand Canyon of Arizona
C. A. (Charles A.) Higgins · Charles Fletcher Lummis +1
On Limitations to the Use of Some Anthropologic Data
John Wesley Powell
Zuñi Folk Tales
Frank Hamilton Cushing · John Wesley Powell
Canyons of the Colorado
John Wesley Powell