by John F. Ross
Ice Age, 5, 333
Idaho, 251, 304, 306
Illinois (steamer), 48
Illinois Agricultural Society Fair, 44
Illinois College, 34, 35–38, 43
Illinois Industrial University, 76
Illinois Institute, 33–34, 35, 43
Illinois Museum of Natural History, 75–76, 89, 209
Illinois Natural History Society, 44, 75–76, 258, 341
Illinois Normal University, 102
Illinois River, 39, 43
Illinois State Board of Education, 75, 89, 102, 209
Illinois State Normal University, 75–76
Illinois Wesleyan University, 74–75
immigration, 8–9, 13, 51
Indians. See also various tribes
Mormon relationship with, 184–85, 186
Powell-Ingalls Commission, 226–27, 230
Powell’s childhood experience of, 28–29
Powell’s powwow with Navajo, 195–97
Powell’s powwow with Shivits, 190–91
Powell’s views on, 188–89, 194, 198, 229–30, 266
Powell’s Ute vocabulary, 193
Powell’s visit to Tusayan, 194–97
Powell’s visit to Uinkaret Paiute village, 189
Reservations, 227, 229, 230, 248
Ingalls, George, 226–27, 230
Inner Gorge, Grand Canyon, 156–69, 178
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 341
Interior Department, U.S., 245
Bureau of Indian Affairs, 248–49, 266, 276
irrigation survey, 301–2, 315
Schurz appointment, 248
survey work, 224, 236, 246, 248, 250, 266–67, 271–72
irrigation, 2–3, 81, 252, 259, 301–2, 323, 328–35
“Arid Lands of the United States” (map), 2–4, 308–9
National Irrigation Congress (1893), 329–32
Powell’s Arid Lands report, 260–63, 270, 302, 318, 335
Irrigation Age, 328–29, 333
irrigation districts, 308–9
irrigation survey, 303–24
approval by congress of, 301–2
controversy over, 306–18
funding, 302–3, 304
funding cut off, 322–24
land speculators and, 302–3, 306–7
Powell’s Century articles, 318–22
Stewart and Dutton, 311–14
Stewart and Powell, 4, 304–6, 308–11, 315–16
Island Park, 139
isohyet, 251–52
Isothermal Zodiac, 256
Ives, Joseph, 83–85, 109
Jackass Express, 110–11
Jack Oak College, 16, 21
Jackson, Andrew, 6, 9
Jackson, Henry, 244
Jackson, Ohio, 5–6
views on slavery in, 12–16, 21–22
Jackson, Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall,” 60
Jackson, William H., 218, 219, 225–26, 249
James, Edwin, 254
James, Henry, 318
Janin, Henry, 222
January 1886 blizzard, 300
Jefferson, Thomas, 8, 14, 26, 32, 194, 266
Johnson, Andrew, 90
Johnson, Samuel, 12
Johnson, Willard, 314
Johnston, Albert Sidney, 53, 57
Johnstown Flood, 309
Jones, James K., 313, 314, 315
Jones, Vandiveer, 202, 204, 205–6, 210
Kaibab Paiute Indians, 184–85
Kaibab Plateau, 193–94
Kanab, Utah, 183, 187, 192, 206
Kanab Creek, 211
Kansas, 108, 300–301
Kansas City Star, 256
“keeper hole,” 150
Kenosha, 30
Kentucky, slavery in, 6–7, 12
Keplinger, Lewis, 95, 97–100, 114
Keyhole Route, Longs Peak, 98–100
King, Clarence, 213–15, 239, 264, 312
background of, 213–14
fighting among survey leaders, 224, 234, 235
Fortieth Parallel Survey, 214–15, 216, 219, 222, 224
Great Diamond Hoax and, 222–23
later life of, 278–79
Powell and, 247–48, 267, 269, 273
Powell compared with, 213, 237
secret marriage of, 278–79
survey work, 213–15, 216, 224, 237, 246
at USGS, 269, 272–73, 274, 276–77, 278, 281, 282
Kingfisher Canyon, 121
Kitty Clyde’s Sister, 116, 117, 126–27, 133, 165–68, 167
Labyrinth Canyon, 147–48, 204–5
Lakota Sioux Indians, 78–79, 217, 245, 249
land classification, 261, 266–67, 323, 341
land grants, 37–38, 234, 261, 262, 268, 270–71
land measurements, 265, 266–67
land policy, federal. See also General Land Office
irrigation survey and, 322–23
Powell’s reform efforts of, 261–62, 263, 264–65, 308, 318–20
land speculators, 302–3, 306–7
Langley, Samuel P., 286
Langston, Charles Henry, 14
Lava Cliff Rapid, 166
Lava Falls, 160
Leclerc, Georges-Louis, 42–43
Lee, John D.
execution of, 210
exile of, 209–10
Mountain Meadows Massacre, 186–87, 192, 210
on Young’s Kanab excursion, 183, 186, 187, 192
Lees Ferry, 154–55, 209–10
Leidy, Joseph, 217
Leithead, James, 169
Lewis and Clark Expedition, 49, 78, 82, 96, 194, 253
Library of Congress, 170, 270
Lincoln, Abraham, 37, 39, 278, 318
in Civil War, 46, 49, 60–61
Lincoln, Robert Todd, 280
“Lining” boats, 122
Little Colorado River, 156, 199
livestock industry. See grazing
Locke, John, 256
Lodore Canyon, 126–27, 133–36, 137, 138. See also Disaster Falls
Long, Stephen H., 191, 253–54
Long Expedition of 1819, 194, 253–54
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 49, 201–2
Longs Peak, 93–100, 107
Los Angeles Aqueduct, 334
Los Angeles Science Association, 330
Los Angeles Times, 329
Louisiana Purchase, 26, 194, 253
Lyell, Charles, 19–20, 21, 110
McClernand, John, 54–55
McKinley, William, 336
Mack Morris Mine, 170
Macomb, John N., 85, 109
McPhee, John, 20
McPherson, James B., 59, 68
Maginnis, Martin, 270
Mahan, Dennis Hart, 47–48
Maid of the Cañon, 116, 127, 134, 146, 166–67
Manifest Destiny, 2, 25–27, 215, 255, 256, 257, 258, 262, 281, 320, 336
Manual of Military Surgery, A (Gross), 59
mapping. See Topographical mapping
Marble Canyon, 156
Margerie, Emmanuel de, 327
Marsh, C. Caroll, 48–49, 50
Marsh, Othniel Charles, 298–99
exposé of Bureau of Indian Affairs by, 249
fighting with Cope, 263–64, 267, 307, 308
fossil research of, 264, 328
King and, 272, 273
at National Academy of Sciences, 263, 273
survey work, 263–64, 267, 269, 281
Marshall, Lieutenant William, 226
Mason, Otis, 288
Mather, Cotton
, 18
Mather, Increase, 18
Mather, William, 18–19
Matthews, Washington, 276
McGee, W.J., 287
Mead, Lake, 340
Meade, George, 66–67
Medcalfe, William H., 58–60
megafauna, 17–18
metamorphic rocks, 157
Methodism, 6, 7, 9–11, 12, 21
Methodist Book of Discipline, 10, 22
Mexican War, 26, 49, 256
Michigan, Lake, 118
Middle Park, 86, 93–95, 101
Midwest river systems, 38–42, 47
Millerites, 9
Milliken’s Bend, 62
Milwaukee Sentinel, 32
mining, 80, 96, 239, 281, 291–92
Mint Springs Bayou, 67
Mississippi River, 38–39
in Civil War, 47, 48, 49, 61, 62, 63
Powell travels on, 39–42
Mississippi Valley, 256–57, 282
Missouri, 49–50, 78
Mitten Fault, 138
Modoc Indians, 227
Mojave Indians, 221
Möllhausen, Balduin, 84–85
mollusks, 41, 42
Powell’s collecting efforts, 22, 41–42, 43
Powell’s collection of, 43–44, 75
Moltke, Helmuth von, 294
Monroe, James, 253
Moody, Gideon, 310, 316–18, 322
Moran, Thomas, 223, 225, 238–39
Grand Canyon paintings, 224, 227–29, 231–32, 233
Yellowstone paintings, 218–19
Morgan, Lewis Henry, 277
Mormons
disappearance of Howland party, 173
land-use practices of, 187–88
migration west of, 25, 49, 78, 182
Mountain Meadows Massacre, 186–87, 192, 205, 210
Powell and, 22, 182, 183–88, 197, 227–28
Mormon War, 83–84, 186
Morrill, Lot, 91
Morrill Act, 37–38
Mound Builders, 5, 18
Mountain Meadows Massacre, 186–87, 192, 205
Mount Alice, 98
Mount Dellenbaugh, 189, 190
Mount Evans, 81
Mount Nebo, 228
Mount Trumbull, 188, 211
Mount Trumbull Wilderness, 188
Muab Saddle, 228–29
Muir, John, 29, 32, 312
Mu-koon-tu-weap, 228
Mulholland, William, 334
Music Temple, 205
Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition (Wilkes), 254–55
NASA, 3
National Academy of Sciences, 250–53, 268–69
Allison Commission and, 291
Powell’s address to, 251–53, 260
Powell’s report to, 264–73
National Geographic Society, 299
National Intelligencer, 255, 256–57
National Irrigation Congress (1893), 329–32
National Reclamation Act of 1902, 334–35
national surveys, 212–42, 245–48, 263–64, 266–67
natural selection, 264
natural theology, 22
Navajo Indians, 195–98, 276
Nebraska, 300–301
Nebraska Geological Survey, 216, 218
Nellie Powell, 210
Nevada, 26, 305, 321–22
Newberry, John Strong, 269, 278
Grand Canyon expeditions, 84–85, 109–10
survey work, 247–48, 264, 267
Newcomb, Simon, 279–80
Newell, Francis H., 333
Newell, N. K., 334–35
New Era for Irrigation, 342
New Jersey Volunteers, 113
Newlands Reclamation Act of 1902, 334–35
New York Herald, 117, 177, 249, 295, 307–8
New York Morning News, 25
New York Temperance League, 27
New York Times, 142–43, 227–28, 294, 297
Niagara Falls, 105, 231
Nichols, Francis R. T., 73
Nicolay, John G., 318
Noble, John, 306–7, 316
No Name, 116–16, 126–31, 143, 202
North American Review, 309
Northern Pacific Railway, 252
North Platte River, 118
Oak Cemetery (Philadelphia), 244
Oakley, Annie, 336
Oberlin College, 33, 34, 35, 43
Oberlin Evangelist, 15
Odontornithes, 328
Ogalla Aquifer, 340
Ohio
abolitionism in, 6–7, 12
Powell’s family lives in, 5–23
slavery and, 6–7, 11–16
underground railroad, 13–14, 21, 22
Ohio River, 6–7, 11, 13, 25, 39, 41
Omaha Herald, 140–41
100th meridian west, 223, 251–52, 261, 301
“On Slavery” (Wesley), 11
Oregon Trail, 25, 78, 255
Oregon Treaty (1846), 26
Osage hedgerows, 37
O’Sullivan, John, 25
O’Sullivan, Timothy (John Samson), 221, 222, 224
Otoe Indians, 78
Overland Trail, 110
Pacific Railroad Surveys, 212–13
Paddock, Algernon, 316
Page, Horace, 271
Paiute Indians, 106, 173, 182, 184–93, 211, 227–28
paleontology, 217, 246–47, 281, 295–96
Palmer, John, 141–42
Pangwitch Canyon, 235
Panic of 1873, 233–34, 245
Panic of 1893, 327–28
Paria River, 183, 187, 194
second Colorado River Expedition, 181, 201, 205, 209
Parkman, Francis, 25
pasturage, 252, 261
Patterson, Thomas, 270–71
Peace Policy, of Grant, 227, 248–49
Pemberton, John C., 64, 66
Pennsylvanian Morgan Formation, 138–39
Perry, Matthew C., 80
Philosophical Society of Washington, 332
photography, 223, 244–45, 246
in second Colorado River Exploring Expedition, 202–3, 208
stereoscopes, 208, 223, 246
See also Beaman, E. O.; Fennemore, James; Hillers, John K.; Jackson, William H.; O’Sullivan, Timothy
Picturesque America (Bryant), 224
Pikes Peak, 81–82, 86, 93
Pilgrim’s Progress (Bunyan), 29–30
Piling, James, 287
pillows, 149
Pittsburg Landing, 52, 53, 57–58, 61
Platte River, 78, 79, 80, 253–54
Pleistocene era, 5
Poe, Edgar Allan, 42
Point Sublime, 327
Polk, James, 26, 212
Pony Express, 110, 336
Pope, John, 50
populism, 262, 266
Porter, David D., 63
Potts, Benjamin, 219
Powell, Emma Dean (wife)
children and family life, 200, 203, 205
Civil War and, 47, 53, 58–59, 60, 61, 67
climbs Pikes Peak, 82
coal-gas poisoning of Gilbert family, 287
Colorado River Exploring Expedition and, 141–42, 180
death of John, 336
expeditions of John and, 78, 82, 86, 92–93, 101–2, 206
marriage to John, 44–45, 52
Powell, Henry, 92
Powell, John Wesley “Wes”
Allison Commission, 290–99
appearance of, 1
Arid Lands report, 260–
63, 270, 302, 318, 335
birth of, 7
at Bureau of Ethnology, 230, 275–76, 279, 285, 303, 335
Century Illustrated articles, 318–22
in Civil War, 46–70
Civil War injury of, 1, 56–60, 72–73
death of, 336–37
early life of, 5–11, 15–16, 22, 28–33
education of, 15–16, 17–21, 33–34, 35–38
expeditions of. See specific expeditions
fossil collecting of, 17–18, 41–42, 43–44, 75
Garfield and, 277–78, 279–80
House testimony, 259–60
iritis of, 280, 286
irrigation survey and, 303–24
last years of life of, 335–36
legacy of, 338–42
marriage to Emma, 44–45, 52
naming of, 7
National Academy address, 251–53, 260
National Academy recommendations, 268–73
National Academy report, 264–67
National Irrigation Congress lecture of 1893, 330–33
Native Americans and, 188–98, 226–27, 229–30, 265–66
post-Civil War life of, 72–74
post-expedition journeys of, 172–73, 176–77, 183, 185–98
public land laws and, 266–73, 274
Senate hearings, 1, 2–4, 308–11, 313–15
struggles with his father, 22, 34, 35, 45
survey work, 239–42, 264–68, 280–90, 303–24
survey work funding, 245, 247–48, 249–50, 282, 289–90
teaching of, 34–35, 43, 74–75
Townsend Hearings and, 235–36, 251
at USGS, 2–4, 273, 275, 283–90, 303, 323, 328
Powell, Joseph (father), 5–11, 35, 44–45, 73–74
abolitionism of, 6–7, 11–15, 21–22
circuit riding of, 9–11, 21
farming of, 27–30
move to northern Illinois, 33
move to Wisconsin, 22, 24–25, 27
preaching of, 5, 6, 8–11, 21–22, 28
struggles with his son, 22, 34, 35, 45
Powell, Julietta (sister), 21
Powell, Lake, 154, 338–39, 340
Powell, Mary (mother), 6, 8, 16, 24, 28, 34, 44–45, 61
Powell, Mary Dean (daughter), 205, 336
Powell, Walter Clement “Clem,” 188
Powell, Walter Henry (brother)
in Civil War, 67, 68, 69
in Colorado River Expedition, 92, 112, 116, 140, 143, 146, 153, 164, 166, 168
post-expedition journey of, 172–73
in Rocky Mountain expeditions, 97–98, 101
in second Colorado River Expedition, 202–3, 206, 210
Powell, William “Bram” (brother), 28, 324
Powell Geographic Expeditions. See Colorado River Exploring Expedition of 1869; Colorado River Exploring Expedition of 1871-1872
Powell-Ingalls Commission, 226–27, 230
Powell Plateau, 228–29
Prang, Louis, 246
