POWELL EXPEDITION
LOCATION:
3
East Flaming Gorge Way
Green
River, Wyoming 82935
Just
blocks from
I-80 Exits 89 & 91
HOURS:
Monday — Saturday
10
am to 6 pm
Closed Sundays
& major holidays
ADMISSION:
FREE!
CONTACT:
(307) 872-6435
(307) 352-6715
(307) 872-3234 fax
Email:
swchm@sweetwater.net
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Beyond
the Hundredth Meridian John
Wesley Powell |
The successes and frustrations of John Wesley Powell, who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of Indian tribes of the American Southwest. A prophet without honor who had a profound understanding of the American West. Powell warned long ago of the dangers economic exploitation would pose to the West. Only now, we may recognize just how accurate a prophet he was. |
| Wallace Stegner |
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Down
the Great Unknown
John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy through the Grand Canyon |
On
May 23, 1869, a one-armed Civil War veteran named John Wesley Powell and
a ragtag band of nine mountain men embarked on the last great quest in
the American West. No one had ever explored the fabled Grand
Canyon; to adventurers of that era it was a region almost as mysterious
as Atlantis -- and as perilous.
The ten men set out down the mighty Colorado River in wooden rowboats. Six survived. |
| Edward Dolnick |
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The Exploration Of The Colorado River And Its Canyons | On May 24, 1869, ten men in four boats pushed off at Green River, Wyoming. On August 30, six men in two boats down to their last ten pounds of moldy flour, fifteen pounds of dried and re-dried and re-dried apples and a few pounds of coffee, came out into open country at the mouth of the Virgin River - blackened, bearded, emaciated, in rags - and saw three Mormons and an Indian seining for fish in the shallows. This is a griping tale of the first trip down the Colorado River. |
| John Wesley Powell |
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John Wesley Powell Soldier Explorer Scientist |
Leader of the first expedition down the
Colorado River through the Grand Canyon: "We are three-quarters of a mile in the depths of the earth...We have an unknown distance yet to run; an unknown river yet to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls rise over the river, we know not." August 13, 1869 |
| Jean Thor Cook |
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Powell's
Colorado River Expedition Coloring Book |
Nearly 40 dramatic illustration recall John Wesley Powell's epic 19th century expedition in the valley of the Colorado. Ages 6-10. |
| Peter F. Copeland |
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A
River Running West
The
Life of |
John
Wesley Powell embodied the energy, optimism, and westward impulse of America in his time. This important new biography captures this spirit, providing a magisterial life of this great American explorer and an unforgettable chapter in the sage of the American West. (Jacket Cover) |
| Donald Worster |
