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John Wesley Powell
John Wesley Powell
He was famous for the Powell Geographic Expedition and he was the first one to know what the Grand Canyon was. :D
John Wesley Powell
He was famous for the Powell Geographic Expedition and he was the first one to know what the Grand Canyon was. :D
The John Wesley Powell exoedition.
he was the first cacaussion to cros the Clorado River .
Powell did not discover the Grand Canyon, but he led the first known passage through the Canyon in 1869. It was first seen by Europeans in 1540 but had been known by the Native Americans for centuries.
John Wesley Powell is perhaps best known for being the first to explore the Colorado River. He was born in Mount Morris, New York in 1834. He fought for the Union in the Civil War and later became a geology professor at Illinois Wesleyan University at Bloomington.Ê
Captain Garcia Lopez de Cardenas in 1540.
John Wesley Powell explored the grand canyon
The first boaters known to have to have gone by boat, raft or canoe the full length of the Grand Canyon was the 1869 expedition by Major John Wesley Powell.