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It's an adventure story that pits Gilded Age magnates against miners, steelworkers and railway men; explorers such as John Wesley Powell against the wilderness; and gold prospectors against Crazy Horse, the Oglala Sioux leader who crushed Custer at
Capitalism Killed Crazy Horse, Saved Chicago After Fire: Books - Bloomberg 2010
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See also "John Wesley Powell," edited by G.K. Gilbert, reprinted from The Open Court, 1903.
The Romance of the Colorado River Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh 1894
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The professor explains new ways to propel spacecraft within our Milky Way neighborhood. 8:15 p.m., Washington Philosophical Society, John Wesley Powell Auditorium adjacent to the Cosmos Club, 2170 Florida Ave. NW.
Venus an earlier riser in February Blaine P. Friedlander Jr. 2011
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Even John Wesley Powell who eventually headed up the new Bureau of Ethnology thought hunters could be made into farmers.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Even John Wesley Powell who eventually headed up the new Bureau of Ethnology thought hunters could be made into farmers.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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All of this is made possible by the ridiculously out of date Mining Law of 1872 - a law that was enacted three years after John Wesley Powell's first expedition through the Grand Canyon.
Rep. Ed Markey: The Grand Canyon: Not for Sale Rep. Ed Markey 2012
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We might hear how Lewis and Clark somehow planned on a Constellation station, or how John Wesley Powell, surveying the area, made notations about how the current JMB construction location would be perfect for the nascent subway technology.
John Mirisch: Bait-Switch-Fix: The Westside Subway's Three Act Play John Mirisch 2011
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Even John Wesley Powell who eventually headed up the new Bureau of Ethnology thought hunters could be made into farmers.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Even John Wesley Powell who eventually headed up the new Bureau of Ethnology thought hunters could be made into farmers.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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All of this is made possible by the ridiculously out of date Mining Law of 1872 - a law that was enacted three years after John Wesley Powell's first expedition through the Grand Canyon.
Rep. Ed Markey: The Grand Canyon: Not for Sale Rep. Ed Markey 2012
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