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The romance of the Colorado River: the story of its discovery in 1540, with an account of the later explorations, and with special reference to the voyages of Powell through the line of the great canyons
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Note on the author's itinerary in the basin of the Colorado River and adjacent territory -- The secret of the Gulf: Ulloa, 1539, one of the captains of Cortes, almost solves it, but turns back without discovering ; Alar?con, 1540, conquers -- The unknown river: Alar?con 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 -- The Grand Canyon: Character of the Colorado River ; The water-gods: erosion and corrasion [corrosion] ; The Natives and their highways ; The "Green River Valley" of the old trappers ; The strange vegetation and some singular animals -- Oanate, 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 -- 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 -- Fraemont, the pathfinder: Ownership of the Colorado ; The road of the gold seekers ; First United States military post, 1829 ; Steam navigation ; Captain Johnson goes to the head of Black Canyon -- 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 --
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
A canyon of cataracts: The imperial chasm ; Short rations ; A split in the party ; Separation ; Fate of the Howlands and Dunn ; The monster vanquished
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
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
Into the jaws of the dragon: A useless experiment ; Wheeler reaches Diamond Creek going up-stream ; The Hurricane Lodge ; Something about names ; A trip from Kanab through unknown country to the mouth of the Dirty Devil
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
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 [1890] ; A fall and a broken leg ; Success of Stanton ; The dragon still untrammeled
Epilogue
Appendix: The canyons, valleys, and mouths of principal tributaries of the Colorado, in their order, from source to gulf, together with lengths and greatest depths of canyons, descent in feet, and altitudes above sea.
Illustrations: Looking up the Bright Angel Trail / Thomas Moran
Looking into the first granite gorge / Hall
Gulf of California at the mouth of the Colorado / DeLancey Gill
Alar?con's ships struggling with the great bore of the Colorado, 1540 / F.S. Dellenbaugh
One of the Cocopa giants / DeLancy [De Lancey] Gill
A Pai Ute [Paiute] boy / J. K. Hillers
Professor McGee and a group of Cocopas / Gill
Looking down upon Glen Canyon / J.K. Hillers
Pinnacle in the Canyon de Chelly / Ben Wittick
Bad Lands [Badlands] on Black's Fork of Green River / U. S. Geological Survey
Towers at Short Creek : outline drawing / W.H. Holmes
Outline sketch of the Grand Canyon from Point Sublime / W.H. Holmes
Profile of Green River through the Uinta Mountains ; Profile of the Colorado through the Grand Canyon
Pot-hole in intermittent water course, Glen Canyon / J. Fennemore
Looking up Green River Valley from below Union Pacific Railway Bridge / C.R. Savage
The barrel cactus : pencil sketch / Frederick Dellenbaugh
A Kaibab Pai Ute / posed by Thomas Moran ; photograph by J.K. Hillers
Across the house tops of Zuani / J.K. Hillers
Ruin called Casa Grande, Arizona / Cosmos Mindeleff
A lateral canyon of Escalante River / J.K. Hillers
Church of San Xavier del Bac, near Tucson : drawing / Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh, after a photograph
Grand Canyon from Bright Angel Trail / Thomas Moran
Canyon of the Little Colorado / Christian Barthelmess
A court in Wolpi, Arizona : drawing / Dellenbaugh
The governors of Zuani / J.K. Hillers
Ashtishkel, a Navajo chief / E.O. Beaman
Flaming Gorge, Green River; beginning of the canyons : picture taken just inside the entrance / Elias Olcott Beaman
Ashley Falls, Red Canyon, Green River / Beaman
The Grand Canyon from Bright Angel Trail looking east / photograph by Rose
Entrance to Black Canyon, first seen by James O. Pattie / photography by Wheeler Expedition
Uinta Utes, Saiar's home / Hillers
Kaibab Paiute boys playing a game of Wolf and Deer / John K. Hillers
Las Vegas, southern Nevada, on the Old Spanish Trail / Dellenbaugh
A canyon in the cliffs, southern Nevada / Dellenbaugh
One of the parks on the Kaibab / T. Mitchell Prudden
The ruins in Canyon de Chelly, Arizona, called "Casa Blanca" / J.K. Hillers
The steamer "Explorer" in which Lieutenant Ives in 1857 ascended the Colorado to foot of Black Canyon / H.B. [Balduin] Mollhausen
Looking down the Grand Canyon from the mouth of the Kanab / F.S. Dellenbaugh
The canyon of Diamond Creek / William Henry Jackson
Canyon of the San Juan River looking west at Honiket Trail, Utah / Charles Goodman
Looking up the Grand Canyon from mouth of Kanab River / F.S. Dellenbaugh
John Wesley Powell
Character of Green River Valle in the vicinity of the crossing of the U. P. [Union Pacific] Railway / E.O. Beaman
Canyon of Lodore
the Wheatstack / E.O. Beaman
Green River above Flaming Gorge / E.O. Beaman
Red Canyon, Green River. Upper portion. Looking up stream / Beaman
The Canyon of Lodore
upper part of Disaster Falls / Beaman
The canyon of Brush Creek
looking up / J.K. Hillers
The canyon of Lodore, looking down at Triplet Falls / Beaman
Junction of the Grand and Green / Beaman
The Music Temple alcove, Glen Canyon / Beaman
The depths of the Grand Canyon at sunset / Dellenbaugh
The Grand Canyon. The "Sockdologer" Rapid / J.K. Hillers
Bottom of the Grand Canyon / T. Mitchell Prudden
In the midst of a Grand Canyon rapid / Dellenbaugh
The basket maker / Hillers
Green River Station, U. P. Ry., Wyoming, 1871
Thompson, Hattan, Jones, Steward, W. C. Powell, Richardson, Dellenbaugh, Bishop: our first camp, Green River, Wyoming. United States Colorado River Expedition, 1871 / Beaman
The boats of Powell's Second Expedition on the beach at Green River, Wyoming / Beaman
Ruins of the Green River terminus / Beaman
A. H. Thompson / Clinedinst
Ready for the start, U. S. Colorado River Expedition, Green River, Wyoming, 1871 / Beaman
Portraits of all but two members of the boat party of the U. S. Colorado River Expedition of 1871: W. C. Powell ; John F. Steward ; F. M. Bishop ; J. W. Powell ; A. H. Thompson ; J. K. Hillers ; F. S. Dellenbaugh ; S. V. Jones [missing, E. O. Beaman, Andrew J. Hattan]
Green River Valley. Camp at Tilted Ledge near Henry's Fork / Beaman
Head of Kingfisher Canyon, Green River / Beaman
The canyon of Lodore, looking downstream / Beaman
Canyon of Lodore at Triplet Falls: cliffs about 2500 feet high; river about 300 feet wide / Beaman
Island park, Green River / Beaman
Men of the 1871 Expedition at an abandoned cabin opposite the mouth of the Uinta River / Beaman
The runaways. White River Utes / Beaman
A halt for observations, Second Powell Expedition / Beaman
Uinta Ute tipi and a summer shelter and outlook, showing the old-time notched log for a ladder / J.K. Hillers
Dellenbaugh Butte, Green River near San Rafael / E.O. Beaman
Gunnison Butte, head of Gunnison Valley and foot of Gray Canyon, Powell Expedition of 1871 repairing boats / Beaman
Head of Cataract Canyon, looking down from top of walls near the Junction of the Grand and Green / Beaman
Glen Canyon wall / J. Fennemore
Glen Canyon, Sentinel Rock, between the Crossing of the Fathers and Lee's Ferry / Beaman
The Grand Canyon, cliffs opposite the mouth of Diamond Creek / T.H. O'Sullivan, Wheeler Expedition
The beginning of a natural arch / C.R. Savage
The crew of the "Trilobite, " at the mouth of Diamond Creek / O'Sullivan
The dining-table [ground] at camp / F.S. Dellenbaugh
Winter headquarters at Kanab, 1872-1873, U. S. Colorado River Expedition, Central Tent: Renshawe, Riley, Dellenbaugh, Thompson, Mrs. Thompson / J.K. Hillers
The Uinkaret Mountains at sunset, from the north-east: Mt. Trumble in the middle, Mt. Logan in the far distance / F.S. Dellenbaugh
Major Powell and a Pai Ute, southern Utah, 1872 / J.K. Hillers
The expedition photographer in the field / J.K. Hillers
Butte in Grand Gulch / Charles Goodman
Repairing boat near mouth of Fremont River on the Colorado, 1872 / J. Fennemore
Major Powell [with Indian, Native American] in the field, 1872
Navajos in characteristic dress / Dellenbaugh
Marble Canyon / Hillers
F. S. Dellenbaugh, 1872 / tintype by J.K. Hillers
Running the Sockdologer, Grand Canyon / F.S. Dellenbaugh
A capsize in the Grand Canyon / Dellenbaugh
Mouth of Kanab Canyon: abandoned boats of the United States Colorado River Expedition, 1872
Camp at Oak Spring, Uinkaret Mountains / J.K. Hillers
Looking down the Canyon de Chelly, a tributary of the San Juan and containing many cliff houses / Ben Wittick
Looking up the Grand Canyon, at the foot of Toroweap, Unikaret Division / Dellenbaugh
On the Bright Angel Trail / T. Mitchell Prudden
John Wesley Powell, 1834-1902
The Grand Canyon: boats of the second Powell Expedition, showing armchair in which Powell sat / J.K. Hillers.
Maps: Wytfliet-Ptolemy map of 1597
Western part, United States : relief map / E.E. Howell
The Grand-Marble Canyon region
The Grand Canyon of the Colorado of the West and the Cliffs of southern Utah {The Grand Canyon and Terrace Plateau region} / E.E. Howell
From a United States Geological Survey map / titles added by F.S.D.
Padre Kino's map of 1791
U.S. Colorado River Expedition : Green River through the Uinta Mountains ; from the first map, 1871 / A.H. Thompson, geographer ; F.M. Bishop and S.V. Jones, topographers
Part of Map No. 1 / J.C. Ives
Green River from the U. P. Railway to White River, showing gorges through the Uinta Mountains.
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Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) -- Description and travel
Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) -- Discovery and exploration
Colorado River Valley (Colo.-Mexico) -- Description and travel
Description and travel
Discovery and exploration
Grand Canyon (Ariz.)
Grand Canyon (Ariz.) -- Description and travel
Powell, John Wesley
Powell, John Wesley, -- 1834-1902
Powell, John Wesley, -- 1834-1902 -- Travel -- Arizona -- Grand Canyon
Travel
Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) -- Description and travel
Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) -- Discovery and exploration
Colorado River Valley (Colo.-Mexico) -- Description and travel
Description and travel
Discovery and exploration
Grand Canyon (Ariz.)
Grand Canyon (Ariz.) -- Description and travel
Powell, John Wesley
Powell, John Wesley, -- 1834-1902
Powell, John Wesley, -- 1834-1902 -- Travel -- Arizona -- Grand Canyon
Travel
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