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John Wesley Powell: Soldier, Explorer, Scientist Horror_Gift_Guide For longtime Calvin and HobbesNow You Know about John Wesley POWELL 1834 1902 Leader of the first expedition down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon "We are three quarters of a mile in the depths of the earth . . . . We have an unknown distance yet to run; an unknown river yet to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls rise over the river, we know not." John Wesley Powell, Journal entry August 13, 1869