John Wesley Powell’s famous expedition down the Green and Colorado rivers will be explored during a free seminar on Saturday. The program begins at 1 p.m. at Meeteetse Museums.

The Powell Expedition took place in 1869, from May until the end of August. During those three months, boats and supplies were lost and crew members abandoned the expedition. Despite the setbacks, Powell completed the expedition on Aug. 30, 1869.

Wyoming has designated September as Archaeology Awareness Month, which will celebrate the 150th anniversary of Powell’s expedition.

Saturday’s seminar will be led by author Donald Worster, a distinguished foreign expert at Renmin University of China. Worster is currently in China and cannot physically be in Wyoming, so the session will be held over Skype.

Worster earned a Ph.D. in American history and literature at Yale University in 1971. His principal areas of research and teaching have included North American and world environmental history, the history of the American West and comparative and world history.

Worster published two prize-winning biographies, “A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir” in 2008 and “A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell” in 2000. He has written several other books, which have been translated into Chinese, Korean, Japanese, French, Italian, Spanish, Czech and Swedish.

For more information contact info@meeteetsemuseums.org or call 307-868-2423. The

Meeteetse Museums are located at 1947 State Street in Meeteetse.