south of Mt. Dellenbaugh.* To the bottom of the Grand Canyon on the east side of the Shewits Plateau. To St. George via Mt. Dellenbaugh and Hidden Spring. To Kanab via Berry Spring and Pipe Spring. To Salt Lake City via Upper Kanab and the Sevier Valley.
This waterpocket, which is a very large one, has, so far as I am aware, never had an English name and I do not know the Amerind one. I have called it "Ambush" because it was the place where three of Powell's men were shot by the Shewits in 1869. See also pp. 229–30.
1884–5—By rail to Ft. Wingate, New Mexico. By rail to Flagstaff. To Flagstaff via circuit of, and summit of, San Francisco Mountain and the Turkey Tanks. By rail to the Needles, California. By rail to Manuelito, New Mexico. To Ft. Defiance. By buckboard to Keam's Canyon. To the East Mesa of the Moki. To Keam's Canyon. By buckboard via Pueblo, Colorado, to Ft. Defiance. To the San Juan River at the "Four Corners," via Lukachukai Pass and the summit of the Carisso Mountains. To Ft. Defiance via the crest of the Tunicha Plateau. By buckboard to Keam's and to the East Mesa of the Moki. To Mishongnuvi and back. By waggon to Keam's. To Oraibe via Tewa. To Keam's via Shimopavi and Tewa. To Holbrook by buckboard.
1899—By rail west across Green River Valley. By rail down Price River, east across Gunnison Valley, up Grand River, and over the Continental Divide.
1903—By rail to Salt Lake. By rail to Modena. By horse up the Virgen River to the narrows of Mukoontuweap. Thence via Rockville and Short Creek to Pipe Springs and Kanab. Thence to De Motte Park, Bright Angel Spring, and Greenland Point at the Grand Canyon on the Kaibab Plateau. Thence to Kanab, Panquitch, and Marysvale. Thence by rail to Salt Lake.
1907—By rail to Grand Canyon, Arizona. By horse to Bass Camp, to the bottom of the Grand Canyon, opposite Shinumo Creek, to Habasu Canyon, to Grand Canyon Station, and to Grand View. By rail to the Needles.
DETAILED CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. The Secret of the Gulf—Ulloa, 1539, One of the Captains of
Cortes, Almost Solves it, but Turns Back without Discovering—Alarcon,
1540, Conquers
CHAPTER II. The Unknown River—Alarcon Ascends it Eighty-five Leagues
and Names it the Rio de Buena Guia—Melchior Diaz Arrives at its Banks
Later and Calls it the Rio del Tizon—Cardenas Discovers the Grand
Canyon.
CHAPTER III. The Grand Canyon—Character of the Colorado River—The
Water-Gods; Erosion and Corrasion—The Natives and their Highways—The
"Green River Valley" of the Old Trappers—The Strange Vegetation and
Some Singular Animals
CHAPTER IV. Onate, 1604, Crosses Arizona to the Colorado—A Remarkable
Ancient Ruin Discovered by Padre Kino, 1694—Padre Garces Sees the Grand
Canyon and Visits Oraibi, 1776—The Great Entrada of Padre Escalante
across Green River to Utah Lake, 1776—Death of Garces Ends the Entrada
Period, 1781.
CHAPTER V. Breaking the Wilderness—Wanderings of the Trappers and Fur
Traders—General Ashley in Green River Valley, 1824—Pattie along the
Grand Canyon, 1826—Lieutenant Hardy, R.N., in a Schooner on the Lower
Colorado, 1826—Jedediah Smith, Salt Lake to San Gabriel, 1826—Pattie
on the Lower Colorado in Canoes, 1827–28
CHAPTER VI. Fremont, the Pathfinder—Ownership of the Colorado—The
Road of the Gold Seekers—First United States Military Post, 1849—Steam
Navigation—Captain Johnson Goes to the Head of Black Canyon
CHAPTER VII. Lieutenant Ives Explores to Fortification Rock—By Trail to
Diamond Creek, Havasupai Canyon, and the Moki Towns—Macomb Fails in
an Attempt to Reach the Mouth of Grand River—James White's Masterful
Fabrication
CHAPTER VIII. The One-armed Knight—A Bold Attack on the Canyons—Powell
and His Men—The Wonderful Voyage—Mighty Walls and Roaring
Rapids—Capsizes and Catastrophes
CHAPTER IX. A Canyon of Cataracts—The Imperial Chasm—Short Rations—A
Split in the Party—Separation—Fate of the Howlands and Dunn—The
Monster Vanquished
CHAPTER X. Powell's Second Attack on the Colorado—Green River City—Red
Canyon and a Capsize—The Grave of Hook—The Gate of Lodore—Cliff of
the Harp—Triplet Falls and Hell's Half-Mile—A Rest in Echo Park
CHAPTER XI. An Island Park and a Split Mountain—The White River
Runaways—Powell Goes to Salt Lake—Failure to Get Rations to the Dirty
Devil—On the Rocks in Desolation—Natural Windows—An Ancient House—On
the Back of the Dragon at Last—Cataracts and Cataracts in the Wonderful
Cataract Canyon—A Lost Pack-Train—Naming the Echo Peaks
CHAPTER XII. Into the Jaws of the Dragon—A Useless Experiment—Wheeler
Reaches Diamond Creek Going Up-stream—The Hurricane Ledge—Something
about Names—A Trip from Kanab through Unknown Country to the Mouth of
the Dirty Devil
CHAPTER XIII. A Canyon through Marble-Multitudinous Rapids—Running the
Sockdologer—A Difficult Portage, Rising Water, and a Trap—The Dean
Upside Down—A Close Shave—Whirlpools and Fountains—The Kanab Canyon
and the End of the Voyage
CHAPTER XIV. A Railway Proposed through the Canyons—The Brown Party,
1889, Undertakes the Survey—Frail Boats and Disasters—The Dragon
Claims Three—Collapse of the Expedition—Stanton Tries the Feat Again,
1889–90—A Fall and a Broken Leg—Success of Stanton—The Dragon Still
Untrammelled
Epilogue
Appendix
{photo p. xvii} The Steamer "Undine." Wrecked while trying to ascend
a rapid on Grand River above Moab. Photograph by R. G. Leonard. His
experience on this river ran through a period of some 20 years from*
about 1892. He died in the autumn of 1913. Every year he built one or
more boats trying to improve on each. The Stone model (see cut, page
129) was the final outcome. The usual high-water mark at Bright Angel
Trail is 45 feet higher than the usual low-water mark. Stanton measured
the greatest declivity in Cataract Canyon and found it to be 55 feet in
two miles. The total fall in Cataract Canyon he made 355 feet. With a
fall per mile of 27½ feet. Cataract holds the record for declivity,
though this is only for two miles, while