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John Wesley Powell, named the Grand Canyon. Major John Wesley Powell was 35 years old when he led his first expedition through the Canyon. He was a geologist, a teacher, and a one-armed veteran of the Civil War (he lost his right arm in the Battle of Shiloh).

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That is what the people named it. They noticed the canyon as being rather large and bigger than any other canyon they had seen, so they named it the Grand Canyon.

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thank you SO much for helping me answer this like before it made no sense but now i get it.

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The call it the grand canyon because it is a canyon that is grand.

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It was named the Grand Canyon because it is truly grand.

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Grand Canyon got its name because it is one of the biggest canyons in the world.

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in 1934

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