The Romance of the Colorado River | Page 7

of Major Powell
himself. Both begin at the mouth of the Uinta River.
Major Powell, because of his one-armed condition, had the only
life-preserver. The preserver was rubber of the inflating type and is in
the Smithsonian Institution, presented by Mr. Stanton who obtained it
from one of the survivors in 1907.

NOTE ON THE AUTHOR'S ITINERARY IN THE BASIN OF THE
COLORADO RIVER AND ADJACENT TERRITORY (Except where
otherwise stated journeys were on horseback.)
1871--By boat from the Union Pacific Railway crossing of Green River,
down the Green and Colorado to the mouth of the Paria, Lee's Ferry.
Numerous side trips on foot. Lee's Ferry to House Rock Valley, and
across north end of the Kaibab Plateau to the village of Kanab.
1872--Kanab to House Rock Valley and Paria Plateau. To Kanab. To
southern part of Kaibab Plateau. To Kanab via Shinumo Canyon and
Kanab Canyon. To Pipe Spring. To the Uinkaret Mountains and the
Grand Canyon at the foot of the Toroweap Valley. To Berry Spring
near St. George, along the edge of the Hurricane Ledge. To the
Uinkaret Mountains via Diamond Butte. To the bottom of the Grand
Canyon at the foot of the Toroweap. To Berry Spring via Diamond
Butte and along the foot of the Hurricane Ledge. To St. George. To the
Virgen Mountains and summit of Mt. Bangs. To Kanab via St. George.
To the Aquarius Plateau via Potato Valley. To and across the Henry
Mountains. To the Colorado at the mouth of Fremont River. By boat to
the mouth of the Paria. To Kanab and return across the Kaibab. By boat

down the Colorado to the mouth of the Kanab. To Kanab via the Kanab
Canyon. To the Uinkaret Mountains. To Kanab via Pipe Spring.
1873--To Salt Lake City, via Long Valley and the Sevier River.
1875--To terminus of Utah Southern Railway, about at Spanish Forks,
by rail. To Kanab via Sevier River and Upper Kanab. To the Kaibab
Plateau, De Motte Park, and the rim of the Grand Canyon. To the
bottom of the Grand Canyon via Shinumo and Kanab Canyons. To
Kanab via Kanab Canyon. To the Uinkaret Mountains via Pipe Spring
and the Wild Band Pockets. To the Grand Canyon at the foot of the
Toroweap.
1876--To St. George across the Uinkaret Plateau. To Las Vegas,
Nevada, via Beaver Dam, Virgen River, the Muddy, and the desert. To
St. George, by the desert and the old "St. Joe" road across the Beaver
Dam Mountains. To the rim of the Grand Canyon, via Hidden Spring,
the Copper Mine, and Mt. Dellenbaugh. To a red paint cave on the side
of the canyon, about twenty-five hundred feet down. To St. George via
same route. To Ivanpah, California, via the old desert road, the Muddy,
Las Vegas, and Good Spring. To St. George via same route. To Kanab
via Short Creek and Pipe Spring. To the Uinkaret Mountains via Pipe
Spring and Antelope Valley. Across to the Shewits Plateau and to
Ambush Waterpocket 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