Canyons of the Colorado, or The exploration of the Colorado River and its Canyons by John Wesley Powell
Loyal Books
3.8from 4 ratings
- 16
- Episodes
- 4
- Ratings
- 2023
- First episode
About Canyons of the Colorado, or The exploration of the Colorado River and its Canyons by John Wesley Powell
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.
- Publisher
- Loyal Books
- Category
- arts · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 18 Dec 2023
- Latest episode
- 2 Jan 2024
Latest episodes
16 episodes in the feed.
2 Jan 2024
00 – Preface
1 Jan 2024
01 – The Valley of the Colorado
31 Dec 2023
02 – Mesas and Buttes
30 Dec 2023
03 – Mountains and Plateaus
29 Dec 2023
04 – Cliffs and Terraces
28 Dec 2023
05 – From Green River City to the Flaming Gorge
27 Dec 2023
06 – From Flaming Gorge to the Gate of Lodore
26 Dec 2023
07 – The Canyon of Lodore
25 Dec 2023
08 – From Echo Park to the Mouth of the Uinta
24 Dec 2023
09 – From the Mouth of the Uinta River to the Junction of Grand and Green
23 Dec 2023
10 – From the Junction of the Grand and Green to the Mouth of the Little Colorado
22 Dec 2023
11 – From the Little Colorado to the Foot of the Grand Canyon
21 Dec 2023
12 – The Rio Virgen and the Uinkaret Mountains
20 Dec 2023
13 – Over the River
19 Dec 2023
14 – To Zuni
18 Dec 2023
15 – The Grand Canyon
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