Manlihood Mancast

TESTICULAR FORTITUDE is brought to you by HAINES KNIVES - http://hainesknives.com Imagine taking a lead musketball to your arm, having it sawn off in a field hospital, and then going on to explore uncharted and impassable rivers on a raft with only one good arm… As his name would suggest, John Wesley Powell was the son of a Methodist preacher. He grew up with a fascination for exploration and nature, and as a young man, went on several river expeditions to study fossils and geology along the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. But then the Civil War broke out, and he earned a commission as 2nd Lieutenant in the Union Army. At the battle of Shiloh, his right forearm was shattered by a minie-ball, and his arm was amputated. He continued to serve in the army throughout the war, helping with Sherman’s artillery. After the war, he assumed the role of professor of natural sciences at Illinois Wesleyan University and  curator of the Illinois Natural History Society Museum. But you can’t keep a man like Powell co