Biographical Memoir of John Wesley Powell, 1834-1902 by William Morris Davis ~ Full Audiobook [biography]

Biographical Memoir of John Wesley Powell, 1834-1902 by William Morris Davis audiobook.

Genre: biography

Written by Harvard geographer William Morris Davis, Biographical Memoir of John Wesley Powell, 1834-1902 presents a brisk, first-hand portrait of one of the defining scientific frontiersmen of the United States. Powell emerges not only as the one-armed Civil War veteran who dared the Colorado River and the canyons of the West, but as a relentless organizer who pushed exploration into public service. Through tightly focused sections, Davis follows Powell from field hardship and improvisation to the work of building institutions: shaping federal survey work in the West, helping establish what became the U.S. Geological Survey, and guiding the Bureau of Ethnology at a time when the nations and cultures of Native America were too often misunderstood or ignored. The memoir highlights Powell's lifelong insistence that science should inform policy, especially in the arid West where water, land, and settlement could not be managed by wishful thinking. As Davis traces Powell's leadership, rivalries, and vision for responsible development, listeners are drawn into a larger question that still feels modern: how do you map a continent, share its resources, and do justice to the people who already live there?

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:05:39) Chapter 02

(00:10:42) Chapter 03

(00:15:10) Chapter 04

(00:24:28) Chapter 05

(00:35:38) Chapter 06

(00:46:48) Chapter 07

(00:53:08) Chapter 08

(01:01:24) Chapter 09

(01:09:22) Chapter 10

(01:14:42) Chapter 11

(01:22:05) Chapter 12

(01:43:08) Chapter 13

(01:54:27) Chapter 14

(01:59:53) Chapter 15

(02:04:03) Chapter 16

(02:06:02) Chapter 17

(02:13:23) Chapter 18

(02:20:45) Chapter 19

(02:24:14) Chapter 20

(02:31:36) Chapter 21

(02:34:57) Chapter 22

(02:41:57) Chapter 23

(02:45:24) Chapter 24

(02:55:06) Chapter 25

(02:58:18) Chapter 26

(03:05:16) Chapter 27

(03:17:05) Chapter 28

(03:18:45) Chapter 29

(03:23:30) Chapter 30

(03:29:53) Chapter 31

(03:32:32) Chapter 32

(03:37:16) Chapter 33

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