The Robert LUCAS Foundation
Established Iowa City, iowa - 2014
MAJOR JOHN WESLEY POWELL GRAVESITE
Major Powell is buried with his wife, Emma Dean Powell, in Section 1, Lot 408, Grid L-35 at Arlington National Cemetery. This page shows photos taken on a recent visit to the site by the Robert Lucas Foundation's Executive Director.
The River Expedition of 1869
Click below to find more information on the history of the 1869 Rivers Expedition that filled in the last blanck space not he map of the Continential United States and on the events of the foundation's commemorative reactant of the complete journey from Green River, Wyoming to the Bay of California.
Who was "Captain Jack"?
The majority of the men who set out down the river at Green River, Wyoming on 24 MAY 1869 were Union veterans of the War of Rebelian (Civil War in our modern vernacular) and a number had been wounded in battle. Major John Wesley Powell in many ways maybe one of America's first arch type of the Modern Wounded Warrior having lost his arm in the Battle of Shiloh. It is also likely many of the veterans also suffered from, what we today call, post traumatic stress disorder (PSTD) resulting form the brutality and depravity they saw on the battlefield. Captain Walter Powell was affected by his time in a Confederate prison that he had to be trasnferred to a hospital while in Confederate custody.
The River Expedition of 1869
Click below to find more information on the history of the 1869 Rivers Expedition that filled in the last blanck space not he map of the Continential United States and on the events of the foundation's commemorative reactant of the complete journey from Green River, Wyoming to the Bay of California.
taylor's 1866 expedition to col0rado
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powell's 1867 expedition to col0rado
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powell's 1868 expedition to col0rado
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winter quarters 1868 - 1869
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The "Captain Jack" Project
waht is the "Captain Jack" project?
The "Captain Jack" Project is a project to commemorate the last great exploration of the American West and understand the expedition's impact on the United States over the last 150 years. The project covers the expeditions between 1887 - 1889 led by Major John Wesley Powell. Specifically, the Project covers Powell's 1867 Expedition to Colorado, his 1868 Expedition to Colorado, Winter Quarters in 1868-69 for the River Expedition in 1869, and the exploration of the Green River and the Grand/Colorado River through the Grand Canyon to the mouth of the Colorado River in the Bay of California.
The two most notable events being planned as part of the "Captain Jack" Project are a 150th Anniversary ascent of Long's Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park in August of 2018 and a new expedition down the Green and Colorado rivers following the complete route from Green River, Wyoming where ten men began the journy to the Bay of California where only two of the original ten men would reach.
The project will also work to highlight the unique role the veterans and - what we would now call wounded warriors - played on these expeditions. Hand-in-hand with highlighting the role of such veterans as Corporal Jack Sumner and wounded warriors such as Major John W. Powell played on these expeditions, the Project with also seek to partner with current service organizations supporting the wounded warriors of or nations recent conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Horn of Africa, and numerous other places that the brave men and women of our Nation have gone to ensure this generation and the next know the freedoms most of us take for granted every day.
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