Canyons of the Colorado, or The exploration of the Colorado River and its Canyons by John Wesley Powell artwork

Canyons of the Colorado, or The exploration of the Colorado River and its Canyons by John Wesley Powell

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John Wesley Powell was a pioneer American explorer, ethnologist, and geologist in the 19th Century. In 1869 he set out to explore the Colorado and the Grand Canyon. He gathered nine men, four boats and food for ten months and set out from Green River, Wyoming, on May 24. Passing through dangerous rapids, the group passed down the Green River to its confluence with the Colorado River (then also known as the Grand River upriver from the junction), near present-day Moab, Utah. The expedition’s route traveled through the Utah canyons of the Colorado River, which Powell described in his published diary as having …wonderful features—carved walls, royal arches, glens, alcove gulches, mounds and monuments. From which of these features shall we select a name? We decide to call it Glen Canyon. (Ironically, now almost completely submerged by Lake Powell, behind the Glen Canyon Dam.) One man (Goodman) quit after the first month and another three (Dunn and the Howland brothers) left at Separation Rapid in the third, only two days before the group reached the mouth of the Virgin River on August 30 after traversing almost 1,500 km. The three who left the group late in the trip were later killed—probably by Indians. Powell retraced the route in 1871-1872 with another expedition, producing photographs, an accurate map, and various papers, including ethnographic reports of the area’s Native Americans and a monograph on their languages.

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Episodes

00 – Preface

January 02, 2024 00:00 - 6 minutes - 2.86 MB

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01 – The Valley of the Colorado

January 01, 2024 00:00 - 21 minutes - 9.54 MB

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02 – Mesas and Buttes

December 31, 2023 00:00 - 32 minutes - 14.3 MB

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03 – Mountains and Plateaus

December 30, 2023 00:00 - 20 minutes - 8.58 MB

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04 – Cliffs and Terraces

December 29, 2023 00:00 - 28 minutes - 12.4 MB

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05 – From Green River City to the Flaming Gorge

December 28, 2023 00:00 - 17 minutes - 7.63 MB

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06 – From Flaming Gorge to the Gate of Lodore

December 27, 2023 00:00 - 20 minutes - 8.58 MB

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07 – The Canyon of Lodore

December 26, 2023 00:00 - 21 minutes - 9.54 MB

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08 – From Echo Park to the Mouth of the Uinta

December 25, 2023 00:00 - 29 minutes - 13.4 MB

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09 – From the Mouth of the Uinta River to the Junction of Grand and Green

December 24, 2023 00:00 - 25 minutes - 11.4 MB

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10 – From the Junction of the Grand and Green to the Mouth of the Little Colorado

December 23, 2023 00:00 - 57 minutes - 25.7 MB

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11 – From the Little Colorado to the Foot of the Grand Canyon

December 22, 2023 00:00 - 7 minutes - 30.5 MB

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12 – The Rio Virgen and the Uinkaret Mountains

December 21, 2023 00:00 - 4 minutes - 29.6 MB

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13 – Over the River

December 20, 2023 00:00 - 32 minutes - 14.3 MB

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14 – To Zuni

December 19, 2023 00:00 - 16 minutes - 6.68 MB

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15 – The Grand Canyon

December 18, 2023 00:00 - 23 minutes - 10.5 MB

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