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telling him how he may
best avail himself of them. This book is written to meet this demand. It
therefore partakes more of the character of a guide book than the
former volume, so it has been decided to make it lighter in weight and

handier in form, so that it can be slipped into the pocket or handbag,
and thus used on the spot by those who wish a ready reference
handbook.
Used in connection with the earlier volume or alone for it is complete
in itself in all its details--it cannot fail to give a clearer and fuller
comprehension of this "Waterway of the Gods,"--the most
incomparable piece of rugged scenery in the known world.
George Wharton James El Tovar, Grand Canyon, September, 1909.

CONTENTS
FOREWORD
I. THE GRAND CANYON OF ARIZONA
II. ON THE GRAND CANYON RAILWAY TO EL TOVAR
III. EL TOVAR AND ITS EQUIPMENTS
IV. THE GRAND CANYON AT EL TOVAR
V. THREE WAYS OF SPENDING ONE DAY AT THE CANYON
VI. HOW TO SPEND TWO TO FIVE DAYS AT EL TOVAR
VII. HOW FULLY TO SEE AND KNOW THE GRAND CANYON
REGION
VIII. FROM EL TOVAR DOWN THE BRIGHT ANGEL TRAIL
IX. TO GRAND VIEW AND DOWN THE GRAND VIEW TRAIL
X. A NEW "RIM" ROAD AND TRAIL INTO THE SCENIC HEART
OF THE CANYON
XI. FROM EL TOVAR TO BASS CAMP AND DOWN THE BASS

TRAIL
XII. ACROSS THE GRAND CANYON TO POINT SUBLIME
XIII. HOW THE CANYON WAS FORMED
XIV. THE CANYON--ABOVE AND BELOW
XV. THE HOPI HOUSE
XVI. VISITING INDIANS AT EL TOVAR
XVII. THE NAVAHO AND HOPI BLANKET WEAVERS
XVIII. PUEBLO AND NAVAHO POTTERY AND SILVERWARE
XIX. THE HOPIS AND THEIR SNARE DANCE
XX. AN HISTORIC TRAIL ACROSS THE GRAND CANYON
COUNTRY
XXI. THE NAVAHO AND HIS DESERT HOME
XXII. FROM EL TOVAR TO THE HAVASUPAI INDIANS AND
THEIR WONDERFUL CATARACT CANYON HOMES
XXIII. THE FIRST DISCOVERERS AND INHABITANTS OF THE
GRAND CANYON
XXIV. EL TOVAR AND CARDENAS AND THE MODERN
DISCOVERY OF THE GRAND CANYON
XXV. FRAY MARCOS AND GARCES, AND THEIR
CONNECTION WITH THE GRAND CANYON
XXVI. POWELL'S AND OTHER EXPLORATIONS OF THE
GRAND CANYON
XXVII. INDIAN LEGENDS ABOUT THE GRAND CANYON

XXVIII. THE COLORADO RIVER FROM THE MOUNTAINS TO
THE SEA
XXIX. CLIMATE AND WEATHER AT THE GRAND CANYON
XXX. THE GRAND CANYON FOR PLEASURE, REST AND
RECUPERATION
XXXI. THE STORY OF A BOAT
XXXII. THE GRAND CANYON A FOREST RESERVE, GAME
PRESERVE AND NATIONAL MONUMENT
CHAPTER I.
The Grand Canyon Of Arizona
Only One Grand Canyon. The ancient world had its seven wonders, but
they were all the work of man. The modern world of the United States
has easily its seven wonders--Niagara, the Yellowstone, Yosemite, the
Natural Bridge, the Mammoth Cave, the Petrified Forest and the Grand
Canyon of Arizona--but they are all the work of God. It is hard, in
studying the seven wonders of the ancients, to decide which is the most
wonderful, but now that the Canyon is known all men unite in
affirming that the greatest of all wonders, ancient or modern, is the
Grand Canyon of Arizona. Some men say there are several Grand
Canyons, but to the one who knows there is but one Grand Canyon.
The use of the word to name any lesser gorge is a sacrilege as well as a
misnomer.
Not in the spirit of carping criticism or of reckless boasting are these
words uttered. It is the dictum of sober truth. It is wrong to even
unintentionally mislead a whole people by the misuse of names. Until
made fully aware of the facts, the traveling world are liable to error.
They want to see the Grand Canyon. They are shown these inferior
gorges, each called the Grand Canyon, and, because they do not know,
they accept the half-truth. The other canyons they see are great enough
in themselves to claim their closest study, and worthy to have

distinctive names bestowed upon them. But, as Clarence Dutton, the
eminent geologist, has well said in his important scientific monograph
written for the United States Geological Survey: "The name Grand
Canyon repeatedly has been infringed for purposes of advertisement.
The Canyon of the Yellowstone has been called 'The Grand Canyon.' A
more flagrant piracy is the naming of the gorge of the Arkansas River
'The Grand Canyon of Colorado,' and many persons who have visited it
have been persuaded that they have seen the great chasm. These river
valleys are certainly very pleasing and picturesque, but there is no more
comparison between them and the mighty chasm of the Colorado River
than there is between the Alleghanies and the Himalayas.
Sublimity of the Grand Canyon. "Those who have long and carefully
studied the Grand Canyon of the Colorado do not hesitate for a moment
to pronounce it by far the