John Wesley Powell's Underwear

John Powell was born in new york to parents who were the good kind of trouble makers. His father was an abolitionist, which meant he worked to end slavery in america. John liked learning when he first started school in ohio, but the local kids never took kindly to him. He believed this was because their families disagreed with the elder mister powell's views on slavery. Rather than send him back to school, his parents hired a private tutor. And it was a momentous and lucky decision. In the 18 hundreds, earth was a big blue ball of mystery. Many believed our planet was only hundreds or perhaps thousands of years old. But John wesley powell's