'Conqueror of the Grand Canyon' Returned to Bloomington in 1896
The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL › January 20, 2009
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BLOOMINGTON - In January 1896, the celebrated explorer John Wesley Powell returned to Bloomington to visit old friends and reminiscence about old adventures. Almost three decades earlier, Powell used Bloomington-Normal as a base to launch his epic three- month expedition through the last great unknown and unmapped swath of the contiguous United States.
In 1869 Powell led nine men (six of whom survived) through a 500- mile-long stretch of the Green and Colorado rivers, a landscape of desolate canyons and unspeakable beauty stretching across parts of present-day Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and Arizona. The expedition culminated with the first recorded passage through the Grand Canyon.See the full content of this document
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'Conqueror of the Grand Canyon' Returned to Bloomington in 1896
Powell, an obscure one-armed science professor associated with both Illinois Wesleyan and Illinois State Normal universities, was proclaimed nationwide as the "Conqueror of the Grand Canyon." He would...
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