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 ...

Men on Boats is coming to the Rozsa to help ease the earlier nights and the cloudier days.  Men on Boats, a 90-minute play by Jaclyn Backhaus, is a comedy/satire about the real story of John Wesley ...

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 ...

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 ...

Part I. Beginnings -- Part II. Flaming Gorge and Lodore Canyons: May 24 to June 25 -- Part III. Desolation and Gray Canyons: June 26 to July 17 -- Part IV. Cataract, Glen, and Marble Canyons: July 18 ...

Powell led his band of stalwart trappers and ex-soldiers down the Green River in Wyoming Territory, heading for the last bit of terra incognita in the U.S.: the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon.

Late in Jaclyn Backhaus’ play, “Men on Boats,” one crew member estimates the 1869 Powell Expedition has “a five percent chance of survival.” Another crew member says: “We could be on the river in the ...

After Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery, perhaps the greatest expedition in American history is the first running of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon back in 1869. At the time one-armed ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author John Ross describes some of the experiences members of this exploration group had on their expedition.

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Don Lago talked about John Wesley Powell's expedition to the Grand Canyon and his contribution as a result of his travels. Author Don Lago ...

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 ...