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John Wesley Powell

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John Wesley "Wes" Powell (March 24, 1834 – September 23, 1902) was a U.S. soldier, geologist, explorer of the American West, professor at Illinois Wesleyan University, and director of major scientific and cultural institutions. [1]

122 relations: Acculturation, American Antiquarian Society, American Civil War, Ancient Greek, Anthropology, Arizona, Arlington National Cemetery, Artillery, Atlanta Campaign, Battle of Big Black River Bridge, Battle of Champion Hill, Battle of Nashville, Battle of Shiloh, Big Black River (Mississippi), Boone County, Illinois, Brevet (military), Brooklin, Maine, Bureau of American Ethnology, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Cartography, Charles Doolittle Walcott, Clarence King, Colorado River, Confluence, Cosmos Club, Curator, Cyrus Thomas, Des Moines River, Drainage basin, Dust Bowl, Edward Dolnick, England, Ethnography, Franz Boas, Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh, George Henry Thomas, Glen Canyon, Grand Canyon, Green River (Colorado River tributary), Green River, Utah, Green River, Wyoming, Horace Greeley, Illinois College, Illinois Museum of Natural History, Illinois River, Illinois State University, Illinois Wesleyan University, Iowa, Irrigation, Itinerant preacher, ..., Jackson, Ohio, Jacob Hamblin, John Beal (actor), John Karl Hillers, John Wesley Powell Award, Kanab Creek, Lake Powell, Latin, Lewis H. Morgan, Lieutenant colonel, Linguistics, Longs Peak, Major (United States), Marc Reisner, Mark Weiner, Minié ball, Minnesota, Missionary, Mississippi River, Moab, Utah, Mount Morris (village), New York, Mount Morris, New York, National Geographic Society, National Portrait Gallery (United States), Natural science, Nerve, Oberlin College, Ohio River, Otis R. Marston, Page, Arizona, Pittsburgh, Powell Geographic Expedition of 1869, Powell Peak, Powell, Wyoming, Powellite, Rain follows the plow, Ralph Vary Chamberlin, Report on the Lands of the Arid Region of the United States, Reston, Virginia, Rocky Mountains, Saint Anthony Falls, Shivwits Band of Paiutes, Shrewsbury, Siege of Vicksburg, Slavery, Smithsonian Institution, Sociology, Southern Paiute, St. Louis, Ten Who Dared, The Car Over the Lake Album, The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, The Ozark Mountain Daredevils, The Pantagraph, Topography, Union (American Civil War), United States, United States Army, United States Geological Survey, Utah, Ute people, Virgin River, Virginia, Wallace Stegner, Walworth County, Wisconsin, Western United States, Wheaton College (Illinois), William Bramwell Powell, William Byers, William Culp Darrah, Wisconsin, XVII Corps (Union Army). Expand index (72 more) »

Acculturation

Acculturation is the process of social, psychological, and cultural change that stems from blending between cultures.

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American Antiquarian Society

The American Antiquarian Society (AAS), located in Worcester, Massachusetts, is both a learned society and national research library of pre-twentieth century American history and culture.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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Ancient Greek

The Ancient Greek language includes the forms of Greek used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around the 9th century BC to the 6th century AD.

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Anthropology

Anthropology is the study of humans and human behaviour and societies in the past and present.

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Arizona

Arizona (Hoozdo Hahoodzo; Alĭ ṣonak) is a U.S. state in the southwestern region of the United States.

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Arlington National Cemetery

Arlington National Cemetery is a United States military cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., in whose the dead of the nation's conflicts have been buried, beginning with the Civil War, as well as reinterred dead from earlier wars.

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Artillery

Artillery is a class of large military weapons built to fire munitions far beyond the range and power of infantry's small arms.

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Atlanta Campaign

The Atlanta Campaign was a series of battles fought in the Western Theater of the American Civil War throughout northwest Georgia and the area around Atlanta during the summer of 1864.

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Battle of Big Black River Bridge

The Battle of Big Black River Bridge, or Big Black, fought May 17, 1863, was part of the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War.

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Battle of Champion Hill

The Battle of Champion Hill, fought May 16, 1863, was the pivotal battle in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War (1861-1865).

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Battle of Nashville

The Battle of Nashville was a two-day battle in the Franklin-Nashville Campaign that represented the end of large-scale fighting west of the coastal states in the American Civil War.

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Battle of Shiloh

The Battle of Shiloh (also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing) was a battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought April 6–7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee.

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Big Black River (Mississippi)

Big Black River is a river in the U.S. state of Mississippi and a tributary of the Mississippi River.

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Boone County, Illinois

Boone County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois.

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Brevet (military)

In many of the world's military establishments, a brevet was a warrant giving a commissioned officer a higher rank title as a reward for gallantry or meritorious conduct but without conferring the authority, precedence, or pay of real rank.

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Brooklin, Maine

Brooklin is a town in Hancock County, Maine, United States.

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Bureau of American Ethnology

The Bureau of American Ethnology (or BAE, originally, Bureau of Ethnology) was established in 1879 by an act of Congress for the purpose of transferring archives, records and materials relating to the Indians of North America from the Interior Department to the Smithsonian Institution.

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Cape Girardeau, Missouri

Cape Girardeau (Cap-Girardeau; colloquially referred to as "Cape") is a city in Cape Girardeau and Scott counties in the U.S. state of Missouri.

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Cartography

Cartography (from Greek χάρτης chartēs, "papyrus, sheet of paper, map"; and γράφειν graphein, "write") is the study and practice of making maps.

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Charles Doolittle Walcott

Charles Doolittle Walcott (March 31, 1850 – February 9, 1927) was an American paleontologist, administrator of the Smithsonian Institution from 1907 to 1927, and geologist.

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Clarence King

Clarence Rivers King (January 6, 1842 – December 24, 1901) was an American geologist, mountaineer, and author.

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Colorado River

The Colorado River is one of the principal rivers of the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico (the other being the Rio Grande).

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Confluence

In geography, a confluence (also: conflux) occurs where two or more flowing bodies of water join together to form a single channel.

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Cosmos Club

The Cosmos Club is a 501(c)(7) private social club in Washington, D.C. that was founded by John Wesley Powell in 1878 as a gentlemen's club.

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Curator

A curator (from cura, meaning "to take care") is a manager or overseer.

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Cyrus Thomas

Cyrus Thomas (July 27, 1825 – June 26, 1910) was a U.S. ethnologist and entomologist prominent in the late 19th century and noted for his studies of the natural history of the American West.

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Des Moines River

The Des Moines River is a tributary of the Mississippi River in the upper Midwestern United States that is approximately long from its farther headwaters.

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Drainage basin

A drainage basin is any area of land where precipitation collects and drains off into a common outlet, such as into a river, bay, or other body of water.

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Dust Bowl

The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion (the Aeolian processes) caused the phenomenon.

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Edward Dolnick

Edward Ishmael Dolnick (born November 10, 1952) is an American writer, formerly a science writer at the Boston Globe.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Ethnography

Ethnography (from Greek ἔθνος ethnos "folk, people, nation" and γράφω grapho "I write") is the systematic study of people and cultures.

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Franz Boas

Franz Uri Boas (July 9, 1858December 21, 1942) was a German-American anthropologist and a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the "Father of American Anthropology".

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Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh

Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh (1853–1935) was an American explorer.

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George Henry Thomas

George Henry Thomas (July 31, 1816March 28, 1870) was a United States Army officer and a Union general during the American Civil War, one of the principal commanders in the Western Theater.

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Glen Canyon

Glen Canyon is a natural canyon in the Vermilion Cliffs area of southeastern and south-central Utah and north-central Arizona in the United States.

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Grand Canyon

The Grand Canyon (Hopi: Ongtupqa; Wi:kaʼi:la, Navajo: Tsékooh Hatsoh, Spanish: Gran Cañón) is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in Arizona, United States.

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Green River (Colorado River tributary)

The Green River, located in the western United States, is the chief tributary of the Colorado River.

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Green River, Utah

Green River is a city in Emery County, Utah, United States.

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Green River, Wyoming

Green River is a city in and the county seat of Sweetwater County, Wyoming, United States, in the southwestern part of the state.

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Horace Greeley

Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American author, statesman, founder and editor of the New-York Tribune, among the great newspapers of its time.

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Illinois College

Illinois College is a private, liberal arts college in Jacksonville, Illinois.

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Illinois Museum of Natural History

The Illinois Museum of Natural History was founded as the Museum of the Illinois State Natural History Society at the Illinois Normal School, Bloomington, Illinois, in 1858.

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Illinois River

The Illinois River (Miami-Illinois language: Inoka Siipiiwi) is a principal tributary of the Mississippi River, approximately long, in the U.S. state of Illinois.

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Illinois State University

Illinois State University (ISU) is a public university in Normal, Illinois.

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Illinois Wesleyan University

Illinois Wesleyan University is an independent, exclusively undergraduate liberal arts college in Bloomington, Illinois.

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Iowa

Iowa is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri and Big Sioux rivers to the west.

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Irrigation

Irrigation is the application of controlled amounts of water to plants at needed intervals.

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Itinerant preacher

An Itinerant preacher (also known as an itinerant minister or evangelist or circuit rider) is a Christian evangelist who preaches the basic Christian redemption message while traveling around to different groups of people within a relatively short period of time.

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Jackson, Ohio

Jackson is a city in and the county seat of Jackson County, Ohio, United States approximately 27 mi (43 km) SE of Chillicothe.

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Jacob Hamblin

Jacob Hamblin (April 2, 1819 – August 31, 1886) was a Western pioneer, Mormon missionary, and diplomat to various Native American tribes of the Southwest and Great Basin.

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John Beal (actor)

John Beal (August 13, 1909 – April 26, 1997) was an American actor.

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John Karl Hillers

John Karl Hillers (1843, Hanover, Germany – 1925) was an American government photographer.

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John Wesley Powell Award

The John Wesley Powell Award is a United States Geological Survey (USGS) honor award that recognizes an individual or group, not employed by the U.S. federal government, for noteworthy contributions to the objectives and mission of the USGS.

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Kanab Creek

Kanab Creek is one of the many tributaries of the Grand Canyon.

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Lake Powell

Lake Powell is a reservoir on the Colorado River, straddling the border between Utah and Arizona, United States.

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Latin

Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Lewis H. Morgan

Lewis Henry Morgan (November 21, 1818 – December 17, 1881) was a pioneering American anthropologist and social theorist who worked as a railroad lawyer.

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Lieutenant colonel

Lieutenant colonel is a rank of commissioned officer in the armies, most marine forces and some air forces of the world, above a major and below a colonel.

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Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific study of language, and involves an analysis of language form, language meaning, and language in context.

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Longs Peak

Longs Peak is a high and prominent mountain summit in the northern Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America.

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Major (United States)

In the United States Army, Marine Corps, and Air Force, major is a field grade military officer rank above the rank of captain and below the rank of lieutenant colonel.

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Marc Reisner

Marc Reisner (September 14, 1948 – July 21, 2000) was an American environmentalist and writer best known for his book Cadillac Desert, a history of water management in the American West.

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Mark Weiner

Mark S. Weiner is an American writer, web-based documentary filmmaker, and legal historian.

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Minié ball

The Minié ball, or Minni ball, is a type of muzzle-loading spin-stabilized rifle bullet named after its co-developer, Claude-Étienne Minié, inventor of the Minié rifle.

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Minnesota

Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwest and northern regions of the United States.

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Missionary

A missionary is a member of a religious group sent into an area to proselytize and/or perform ministries of service, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.

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Mississippi River

The Mississippi River is the chief river of the second-largest drainage system on the North American continent, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system.

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Moab, Utah

Moab is a city on the southern edge of Grand County in eastern Utah in the western United States.

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Mount Morris (village), New York

Mount Morris is a village located in the Town of Mount Morris in Livingston County, New York, United States.

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Mount Morris, New York

Mount Morris is a town in Livingston County, New York, United States.

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National Geographic Society

The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, is one of the largest non-profit scientific and educational institutions in the world.

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National Portrait Gallery (United States)

The National Portrait Gallery is a historic art museum located between 7th, 9th, F, and G Streets NW in Washington, D.C., in the United States.

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Natural science

Natural science is a branch of science concerned with the description, prediction, and understanding of natural phenomena, based on empirical evidence from observation and experimentation.

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Nerve

A nerve is an enclosed, cable-like bundle of axons (nerve fibers, the long and slender projections of neurons) in the peripheral nervous system.

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Oberlin College

Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio.

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Ohio River

The Ohio River, which streams westward from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Cairo, Illinois, is the largest tributary, by volume, of the Mississippi River in the United States.

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Otis R. Marston

Otis Reed "Dock" Marston (February 11, 1894 – August 30, 1979) was an American author, historian, and Grand Canyon river runner who participated in a large number of river-running firsts.

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Page, Arizona

Page is a city in Coconino County, Arizona, United States, near the Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell.

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Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and is the county seat of Allegheny County.

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Powell Geographic Expedition of 1869

The Powell Geographic Expedition of 1869, led by American naturalist John Wesley Powell, was the first thorough cartographic and scientific investigation of long segments of the Green and Colorado rivers in the southwestern United States, including the first recorded passage of white men through the entirety of the Grand Canyon.

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Powell Peak

Powell Peak is a summit in Grand County, Colorado, in the United States.

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Powell, Wyoming

Powell is a city in Park County, Wyoming, United States.

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Powellite

Powellite is a calcium molybdate mineral with formula CaMoO4.

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Rain follows the plow

Rain follows the plow is the conventional name for a now-discredited theory of climatology that was popular throughout the American West and Australia during the late 19th century.

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Ralph Vary Chamberlin

Ralph Vary Chamberlin (January 3, 1879October 31, 1967) was an American biologist, ethnographer, and historian from Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Report on the Lands of the Arid Region of the United States

Report on the Lands of the Arid Region of the United States is a scientific report and policy recommendation written by American explorer, geologist, and anthropologist John Wesley Powell, and first published in 1878.

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Reston, Virginia

Reston is one of the leading "New Town" planned communities in the United States.

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Rocky Mountains

The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range in western North America.

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Saint Anthony Falls

Saint Anthony Falls or the Falls of Saint Anthony, located northeast of downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, was the only natural major waterfall on the Upper Mississippi River.

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Shivwits Band of Paiutes

The Shivwits Band of Paiutes are a band of the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah, a federally recognized tribe of Southern Paiutes located in southwestern Utah.

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Shrewsbury

Shrewsbury is the county town of Shropshire, England.

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Siege of Vicksburg

The Siege of Vicksburg (May 18 – July 4, 1863) was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War.

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Slavery

Slavery is any system in which principles of property law are applied to people, allowing individuals to own, buy and sell other individuals, as a de jure form of property.

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Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution, established on August 10, 1846 "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge," is a group of museums and research centers administered by the Government of the United States.

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Sociology

Sociology is the scientific study of society, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and culture.

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Southern Paiute

Southern Paiute is a tribe of Native Americans that have lived in the Colorado River basin of southern Nevada, northern Arizona, and southern Utah.

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St. Louis

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Ten Who Dared

Ten Who Dared is a 1960 film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Distribution in 1960.

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The Car Over the Lake Album

The Car Over the Lake Album is the third album by the Southern country rock band The Ozark Mountain Daredevils.

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The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons

The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons by John Wesley Powell is a classic of American exploration literature.

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The Ozark Mountain Daredevils

The Ozark Mountain Daredevils are an American Southern rock/country rock band formed in 1972 in Springfield, Missouri, United States.

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The Pantagraph

The Pantagraph is a daily newspaper that serves Bloomington-Normal Illinois, along with 60 communities and eight counties in the Central Illinois area.

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Topography

Topography is the study of the shape and features of the surface of the Earth and other observable astronomical objects including planets, moons, and asteroids.

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Union (American Civil War)

During the American Civil War (1861–1865), the Union, also known as the North, referred to the United States of America and specifically to the national government of President Abraham Lincoln and the 20 free states, as well as 4 border and slave states (some with split governments and troops sent both north and south) that supported it.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS, formerly simply Geological Survey) is a scientific agency of the United States government.

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Utah

Utah is a state in the western United States.

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Ute people

Ute people are Native Americans of the Ute tribe and culture and are among the Great Basin classification of Indigenous People.

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Virgin River

The Virgin River is a tributary of the Colorado River in the U.S. states of Utah, Nevada, and Arizona.

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Virginia

Virginia (officially the Commonwealth of Virginia) is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States located between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.

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Wallace Stegner

Wallace Earle Stegner (February 18, 1909 – April 13, 1993) was an American novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and historian, often called "The Dean of Western Writers".

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Walworth County, Wisconsin

Walworth County is a county located in the U.S. state of Wisconsin.

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Western United States

The Western United States, commonly referred to as the American West, the Far West, or simply the West, traditionally refers to the region comprising the westernmost states of the United States.

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Wheaton College (Illinois)

Wheaton College is a Christian, residential liberal arts college and graduate school in Wheaton, Illinois, a suburb 25 miles (40 km) west of Chicago.

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William Bramwell Powell

William Bramwell Powell (December 22, 1836 – February 6, 1904) was an American educator, author and superintendent of schools.

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William Byers

William Newton Byers (February 22, 1831 – March 25, 1903) was a founding figure of Omaha, Nebraska, serving as the first deputy surveyor of the Nebraska Territory, on the first Omaha City Council, and as a member of the first Nebraska Territorial Legislature.

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William Culp Darrah

William Culp Darrah (1909, Reading, Pennsylvania – 1989, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) was an American professor of biology at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania.

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Wisconsin

Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States, in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions.

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XVII Corps (Union Army)

XVII Corps was a corps of the Union Army during the American Civil War.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wesley_Powell

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