The Romance of the Colorado River | Page 8

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.
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, l826--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 27 1/2 feet. Cataract holds the record for declivity,
though this is only for two miles, while in the Granite Falls section of
the Grand Canyon there is a fall of 21 feet per mile for ten miles.

THE ROMANCE OF THE COLORADO RIVER
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.
In every country the great, rivers have presented attractive pathways for

interior exploration--gateways for settlement. Eventually they have
grown to be highroads where the rich cargoes of development, profiting
by favouring tides, floated to the outer world. Man, during all his
wanderings in the struggle for subsistence, has universally found them
his friends and allies. They have yielded to him as a conquering
stranger; they have at last become for him foster-parents. Their verdant
banks have sheltered and protected him; their skies have smiled upon
his crops. With grateful memories, therefore, is clothed for us the sound
of such river names