约翰·威斯利·鲍威尔

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约翰·威斯利·鲍威尔
John Wesley Powell
Powell as he appears at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.
出生1834年3月24日
Mount Morris, New York
逝世1902年9月23日(1902岁-09-23)(68岁)
Haven Colony, Brooklin, Maine
墓地Arlington National Cemetery, Section 1
国籍 美国
知名于Traversing Colorado River of the Grand Canyon
配偶Emma Dean Powell
父母Joseph and Mary Powell
科学生涯
2ndDirector of the United States Geological Survey
任期
1881年 (1881)-1894年 (1894)
前任Clarence King
继任Charles Doolittle Walcott
约翰·威斯利·鲍威尔

约翰·威斯利·鲍威尔(英语:John Wesley Powell,1834年3月24日—1902年9月23日),美国军人地理学家,美国西部探险家。以1869年鲍威尔地理探险著称。曾任美国民族学局局长。

参考文献

  • Powell, J. W. (1875). The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons. New York: Dover Press. ISBN 0-486-20094-9 (and other reprint editions).
  • Aton, James M. (2010). John Wesley Powell: His Life and Legacy. ISBN 978-0-87480-992-3
  • Boas, F.; Powell, J. W. (1991) Introduction to Handbook of American Indian Languages plus Indian Linguistic Families of America North of Mexico, University of Nebraska Press, ISBN 0-8032-5017-7
  • Darrah, William Culp, Ralph V. Chamberlin, and Charles Kelly. (2009). The Exploration of the Colorado River in 1869 and 1871–1872: Biographical Sketches and Original Documents of the First Powell Expedition of 1869 and the Second Powell Expedition of 1871–1872. University of Utah Press. ISBN 978-0-87480-963-3.
  • Dolnick, Edward (2002). Down the Great Unknown : John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon (Paperback). Harper Perennial. ISBN 0-06-095586-4.
  • Dolnick, Edward (2001). Down the Great Unknown : John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon (Hardcover). HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN 0-06-019619-X.
  • Ghiglieri, Michael P., Bradley, George Y. (2003). First Through Grand Canyon: The Secret Journals & Letters of the 1869 Crew Who Explored the Green and Colorado Rivers (Paperback). Puma Press . ISBN 0-9700973-2-8.
  • Judd, Neil Merton. The Bureau of American Ethnology; a partial history. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1967.
  • Marston, Otis R., (2014). "From Powell To Power; A Recounting of the First One Hundred River Runners Through the Grand Canyon. Flagstaff, Arizona: Vishnu Temple Press, p. 111-114 ISBN 978-0990527022
  • National Geographic Society (1999) Exploring the Great Rivers of North America. ISBN 0-7922-7846-1.
  • Reisner, Marc (1993). Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Paperback). Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-017824-4.
  • Stegner, Wallace (1954). Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0-8032-4133-X (and other reprint editions).
  • Weiner, Mark S (2006). Americans Without Law. New York University Press. ISBN 0-8147-9364-9.
  • Worster, Donald (2001). A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509991-5.
  • Reisner, Marc (1986). "Cadillac Desert: the American West and its Disappearing Water".
  • Powell, J.W. (1876). A Report on the Arid Regions of the United States, with a More Detailed Account of the Lands of Utah"
  • USGS.”John Wesley Powell: soldier, explorer, scientist.” USGS: Science for a Changing World. Last modified March 28, 2006. Accessed February 20, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20110316120346/http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/geology/publications/inf/74-24/index.htm

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