the scientific explorer John Wesley Powell, a former Army Major who had lost his right arm in battle, was known affectionately as Kapurats, or "One-Arm-Off." It's a name he was given during an ...

In 1869, Major John Wesley Powell led the first expedition through the Grand Canyon, navigating the Colorado River with a crew of untrained frontiersmen. Facing challenges such as starvation and ...

John Wesley Powell is born on March 24 in Mount Morris ... While convalescing in Detroit he is notified of his promotion to the rank of major in the seventeenth Army Corps. Confederate troops ...