John Wesley Powell was een Amerikaanse soldaat, geoloog en ontdekkingsreiziger van het Amerikaanse Westen, vooral bekend van zijn expeditie in 1869. Deze drie maanden durende riviertocht over de Green en Colorado rivieren omvatte de eerste passage door de Grand Canyon. Zijn uitgebreide wetenschappelijke en etnologische werk heeft ons begrip van het Amerikaanse Westen gevormd.
"One hundred years ago John Wesley Powell set out to explore the Grand Canyon of the Colorado - something no man had attempted before. His official report of the voyage remains one of the great adventure stories in all the literature of the American West."
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The uncut version of Powell's narrative covering his exploration of the Colorado River.
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