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Show Forces That Shaped Utah's Dixie In addition, Powell was fascinated with the American Indians. Using Jacob Hamblin and other Mormon guides, he explored both the Indians' lands and culture. This early research was basic to the study of the American Southwest Indians and to the founding of the American Ethnological Society. Powell's work in the Dixie area also led to additional topographical surveys and to the establishment of the Bureau of Reclamation, so much a part of the American West today.'""7 His own work in the region was succeeded by Lt. George Wheeler whose men surveyed into the area in 1869 and up the Colorado River into the Grand Canyon in 1:7 Wallace E. Stegner, Beyond the Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Opening of the West (Boston: Houghton 1954). See also John Wesley Powell, Report Lands of the Arid Regions of the West. . ., (Washington, D . C , 1879). Below: Deseret Telegraph Office, Rockville. R i g h t : Monument on the grave of John D. Lee, Panguitch. USHS collections. 100th Second Mifflin, on the 2d ed. 121 |
