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After fighting to preserve the Union in the Civil War—and losing his right arm at the Battle of Shiloh, John Wesley Powell set off to chart one of the last blank portions of the United States geographical map. His expeditions in the late 1860s and early 1870s helped to complete the geographical map and contribute to the environmental knowledge about aridity in the American West.

In 1867, on the first of two expeditions down the Green and Colorado rivers, John Wesley Powell’s crew, consisting of ten men, embarked on the adventure of a lifetime.

The trek exhausted them both physically and mentally. Sailing on in four poorly-constructed wooden boats, the crew made repairs almost every night.

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Powell experienced the turbulent rapids at the confluence of the Grand and Colorado rivers. After a devastating accident in ‘disaster falls,’ the men lost one of their boats and about a third of their provisions. The grueling journey continuously tested the company’s morale.

Several men abandoned