An 1869 expedition led by John Wesley Powell sailed out of the Grand Canyon on the Colorado River in the first official exploration of the canyon.

Powell often sat near the center of one of his four boats, the Emma Dean, which, not incidentally, was his wife’s name. I sat by his side and, in rough water, was often tied about his body.

A Tucson amateur photographer has won the grand prize in the National Geographic/Nikon Full Story Contest for photos he took in Altar Valley. Brian Powell, 42, left Friday for a photo expedition ...

Powell and his 1869 expedition pushed into the Green River on May 24, 1869. They had four boats: the Emma Dean, a 16-foot pilot boat, built of pine and therefore lightweight and built for quick ...

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 ...

This episode, known as the Powell Geographic Expedition, marked the first recorded passage of white men through the whole of the Grand Canyon. It was also the inspiration for the 2017 play Men on ...

Colonial Western history pegs the first successful trip through the Grand Canyon as the Powell Geographic Expedition of 1869. Before Maj. John Wesley Powell led a group of nine men down the Green and ...

“The Powell Expedition: New Discoveries about John Wesley Powell’s 1869 River Journey” is also available through University of Nevada Press.

It’s no wonder the Powell Expedition has received multiple documentary and film treatments that date back to the 1960 Disney film “Ten Who Dared.” Recently, a number of Flagstaff river ...