"The one-armed professor who conquered the mighty Colorado." No European had ever taken boats down the Colorado River and come out alive.
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They discovered canyons of unsurpassed beauty and gave them names like Music Temple and Canyon of Lodore.
They thrilled to riding the rapids and endured the back-breaking labor of transporting boats and cargo past rapids too dangerous to run.
For three months he and nine crew members made their home on the river.
Despite his size and the constant pain from the Civil War wound that had cost him his arm, Powell\'s twin passions -- adventure and scientific exploration -- drew him to the Colorado River.
Major John Wesley Powell was a small, bookish, one-armed geology professor from a midwestern farm.
The man who challenged the Colorado was different from other explorers.
The Last River tells their remarkable story.
Three months and 1,000 miles later, just two battered boats carrying six exhausted and starving men emerged from the depths of the Grand Canyon.
In May 1869, ten men boarded four rowboats in Green River City, Wyoming. "The one-armed professor who conquered the mighty Colorado." No European had ever taken boats down the Colorado River and come out alive
