Honors 3900

Weeks 8-10

Week Activity Assignments
Eight
The Four Great Surveys of the West

Chronology of the Surveys


 
October 10

Field trip  observations

October 12

October 14
no class
  • Moring: Chpt. 10
  • Discussion
    • Look at several photographs taken on the various expeditions. What do the photographers want us to see? Who was their audience?
    • Can you tell how they care about their subject?
Nine -Ten
John Wesley Powell

File:Grand Canyon at the foot of the Toroweap - looking east, William Henry Holmes.png
Grand Canyon at the foot of the Toroweap - looking east, William Henry Holmes, published 1882.
October 17

John Wesley Powell by James Aton

Elliot West: "The West Before L & C" 7 PM

 October 19 October 21-23
Field Trip to Moab, @$75 per day
October 24

Presentations of Moab field trip observations and Powell research findings.

 October 26

Paiute woman
grinding seeds, 1872

"But it was not
deficient . . . or even 'arid' in the eyes of the Paiutes who dwelt in the Great Basin"

 

 October 28

Short oral reports on the following species observed by Powell being used by Indians:

  • Pinon pine

  • Mesquite

  • Mescrew

  • Agave

  • Cactus (opuntia)

  • Sage

  • Seed grasses

  • Rabbit

  • Mule deer

  • Grasshoppers

  • Crickets

  • Earth worms

  • fish

Food, Fibers, Fuel
 
  • John Wesley Powell by James Aton
    • What did you find intriguing about Powell as a person? as a scientist?
    • What does Aton argue is Powell's basic philosophy in all his various scientific work?
    • How does Powell's work reflect agrarian concerns?
    • How does Aton characterize Powell's coping with the dilemma of science vs. art?
    • How did Powell use the theory of cultural evolution in his studies of Native Americans?
  • Powell maps
  • Extracts from John Wesley Powell's  Notes on the Indians
  • Lost in the Grand Canyon, video (available on reserve, Stewart Library)
  • Journal due: October 28