John Wesley Powell’s Headquarters at Kanab

Lyndia Carter History Blazer, December 1996 When John Wesley Powell’s crew of topographers, geologists, other scientists, artists, and photographers arrived in Kanab in 1871, the settlement was in its infancy. Only a few scattered houses stood outside the fort. Fruit trees, shade trees, and vines were just getting a start. Yet the town was a haven for men who had …