“You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view... but to see it you have to toil from month to month through its labyrinths.”

John Wesley Powell

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About John Wesley Powell

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John Wesley Powell was an American soldier, geologist, and explorer of the American West, renowned for his daring 1869 geographic expedition down the Green and Colorado rivers. This expedition was the first recorded...

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