Adventures
April, 1973
Running the rapids of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon isn't quite as hairy an exploit as it was back in 1869, when a one-armed Civil War veteran named John Wesley Powell led the first exploratory voyage through what was then uncharted wilderness. It took almost a month, and three of Major Powell's party never made it; deciding it would be safer to climb out of the canyon than risk further white water and the possibility of starvation, they left the main group and, it's believed, were...
