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Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico

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The Grand Canyon near the mouth of Ha Va Su Creek Frontispiece

FACING PAGE

After a difficult picture. E. C. Kolb on rope 2

In the Grand Canyon near the Little Colorado 6

The start at Green River, Wyoming 10

Fire Hole Chimneys 10

A typical butte formation 14

Boats and crew. Photo taken in the Grand Canyon 18

Skeleton found in the Grand Canyon 22

Inside of the first canyons 26

Tilted rocks at Kingfisher Canyon 26

“Immense rocks had fallen from the cliff” 36

Ashley Falls, looking down-stream 40

The rocks were dark red; occasional pines grew on the ledges, making a charming combination of colour 44

“We stopped at one hay ranch close to the Utah-Colorado line” 48

Remarkable entrance to Lodore Canyon 52

“The river cut a channel under the walls” at Lower Disaster Falls 56

“Everything was wet” 56

A Colorado River salmon 60

Lodore Canyon as seen from Brown’s Park. 60

“The Canyon was gloomy and darkened with shreds of clouds” 64

“It took nine loads to empty one boat” 68

“An upright log was found wedged between the boulders” 68

Echo Cliffs. “This was the end of Lodore” 72

End of Echo Cliffs. The mouth of the Yampa River is on the right 72

Marvels of erosion 76

“Here was one end of the rainbow of rock that began on the other side of the mountains” 80

Pat Lynch: the canyon hermit 84

Each bed was placed in a rubber and a canvas sack 90

“Now for a fish story” 100

The centre of three symmetrical formations in the Double Bow Knot 114

The Buttes of the Cross 118

“The Land of Standing Rocks was like a maze” 122

Rocks overhanging the Colorado’s Gorge 122

Thirteen hundred feet above the Green River 124

The junction of the Green and the Grand Rivers 128

Looking west into Cataract Canyon 132

Charles Smith and his boat 132

A narrow channel at Rapid No. 22 136

Developing tests 136

Rapid No. 22 in Cataract Canyon 140

The Edith in a cataract 144

A seventy-five-foot drop in three-fourths of a mile 144

Camp in the heart of Cataract Canyon 148

Lower Cataract Canyon. Boats tandem 152

Beginning of a natural bridge. Glen Canyon 152

Pictographs in Glen Canyon 158

Cliff ruins near San Juan River 162

Rainbow Natural Bridge, looking south 162

Rainbow Natural Bridge, looking north 166

Glen Canyon near Navajo Mountain 170

Upper Marble Canyon 170

Placer dredge at Lee’s Ferry 174

Badger Creek Rapid 180

Bands of marble in Marble Canyon 180

A peaceful camp in Marble Canyon 184

The Soap Creek Rapid; a little above lowest stage. Photo published by permission of Julius F. Stone 188

“It was too good a camp to miss” 192

Arch in Marble Canyon 192

Walls of Marble Canyon 196

Approaching the Grand Canyon 200

End of Marble Canyon, from the mouth of the Little Colorado 204

Cataracts of the Little Colorado River 204

End of Hance Trail. Small white line is an intrusion of quartz in the algonkian 208

Below the Sockdologer 210

The Rust Tramway. Span four hundred and fifty feet 214

Bright Angel Creek and Canyon 218

Leaving home, Dec. 19, 1911 222

A composite picture of Marble Canyon walls and a Grand Canyon rapid 222

The Edith (on left of central rock) in Granite Falls 226

Rough water in Hermit Creek Rapid 230

Type of rapid in the granite near Bass Trail 234

The inner plateau, thirteen hundred feet above the river 238

Bert Lauzon, above Separation Rapid 238

The break in the Edith 242

Merry Christmas. The repair was made with bilge boards, canvas, paint, and tin 242

Pulling clear of a rock 246

A shower bath 246

Grand Canyon at the mouth of Ha Va Su Canyon. Medium high water. Frontispiece shows same place in low water 250

“Morning revealed a little snow,” on the top 252

New Year’s Eve was spent in this section between the highest sheer walls in the lower gorge 252

Lava Falls. Lava on left, hot springs on right 254

Swift water in Tapeets Creek Rapid 260

Lauzon, equipped with a life preserver on a rope, on guard below a rapid 260

In the last granite gorge 260

Capt. Burro: a Ha Va Supai 266

The Last Portage. The rocks were ice-filmed. Note potholes 270

Mooney Falls: Ha Va Su Canyon 274

Watching for the signal fire. Mrs. Emery and Edith Kolb 278

The granite gorge near Bright Angel Trail 282

The Grand Canyon from the head of Bright Angel Trail 286

The Cork Screw: lower end of Bright Angel Trail 290

Zoroaster Temple from the end of Bright Angel Trail 298

Winter in the Grand Canyon from the Rim 308

Winter in the Grand Canyon at the River 308

A vaquero in the making 318

Cliff swallows’ nests. Found from Wyoming to Mexico 318

Steam vents beside Volcanic Lake 326

Cocopah Mountain, Mexico 326

Ten miles from the Gulf of California. Coming up on a twenty-foot tide 332

Sunset on the lower Colorado River 332

Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico

Black and white map showing route of travel from Wyoming, through Utah, Arizona, California, and northern Mexico.
Black and white map showing route of travel from Wyoming, through Utah, Arizona, California, and northern Mexico.

THROUGH THE GRAND CANYON FROM WYOMING TO MEXICO

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