Journals
odd: label: Conservation
content: The pages of most of the journals have been laminated.
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902
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content: John Wesley Powell papers
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content: John Wesley Powell papers / Research
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1869-1872
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Consists of 11 field journals numbered 1-12 (No. 7 is missing).  The journals are fragmentary and incomplete.  They are made up of sheets of unlined paper in board note-book covers.   Much of this material was copied by Powell and/or scribes in various other manuscripts [See Sub-series 2].

Also included are transcripts of some of the journals made by William Culp Darrah in 1947 (Nos. 1 and 2) and Dan and Catherine Fowler in 1967 (Nos. 4, 5, 9 and 10). These transcripts were published in: 

Darrah, William Culp. "Major Powell's Journal: July 2 — August 28, 1869." Utah Historical Quarterly, 15 (1947): 125-139.

Fowler, Don D. and Catherine S. "John Wesley Powell's Second Colorado River
Expedition, 1871-72." Smithsonian Journal of History. 3 No. 2 (1969): 1-44.