#20: The Great Unknown
Ghosts of Arlington Podcast
English - October 25, 2021 07:00 - 38 minutes - 26.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsHistory history military cemetery army navy marine corps air force coast guard arlington Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
John Wesley Powell isn't usually mentioned in the same breath as Lewis and Clark, but he should be. His expedition through the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon put the last uncharted area of the contiguous United States on the map. And he did it all with one arm... well, not tied behind his back, but amputated two inches below the elbow after getting shot during the Battle of Shiloh. It never once stopped him from doing anything - like founding the National Geographic Society.
Less is known about his wife, Emma Dean, who lived a slightly quieter life, but was an accomplished ornithologist in her own right, and one of (if not the) first women to summit Colorado's 14,000 foot Pikes Peak. Talk about a power couple!
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