Tau-Gu, chief of the Paiutes overlooking virgin river with J.W. Powell age 39. grca 13806. circa 1873, National Park Service. John Wesley Powell and the Bureau of Ethnology Among many of the ...

Powell and his brother Walter spend the night on the mountain top where they watch the eclipse. After all their efforts, clouds obscure their views. August 8 -- Redwall Cavern, John Wesley Powell ...

Its first director, John Wesley Powell (1834-1902), helped shape the field of ethnology and anthropology. Powell’s exploration work and the findings referenced in his Report of the Exploration of the ...

John Wesley Powell stood only five feet six, had a shock of bristle-brush hair and an unruly tobacco-stained beard that splayed onto his chest. The right sleeve of his jacket hung empty ...

In the summer of 1869, ten white men, led by a one-armed naturalist and Civil War veteran called John Wesley Powell, set off from Wyoming in four boats on a thousand-mile river journey. Their mission, ...