Canyons of the Colorado
J. W. Powell
PREFACE.
CHAPTER I. THE VALLEY OF THE COLORADO.
CHAPTER II. MESAS AND BUTTES.
CHAPTER III. MOUNTAINS AND PLATEAUS.
CHAPTER IV. CLIFFS AND TERRACES.
CHAPTER V. FROM GREEN RIVER CITY TO FLAMING GORGE.
CHAPTER VI. FROM FLAMING GORGE TO THE GATE OF LODORE.
CHAPTER VII. THE CANYON OF LODORE.
CHAPTER VIII. FROM ECHO PARK TO THE MOUTH OF THE UINTA RIVER.
CHAPTER IX. FROM THE MOUTH OF THE UINTA RIVER TO THE JUNCTION OF THE GRAND
AND GREEN.
CHAPTER X. FROM THE JUNCTION OF THE GRAND AND GREEN TO THE MOUTH OF THE
LITTLE COLORADO.
CHAPTER XI. FROM THE LITTLE COLORADO TO THE FOOT OF THE GRAND CANYON.
CHAPTER XII. THE RIO VIRGEN AND THE UINKARET MOUNTAINS.
CHAPTER XIII. OVER THE RIVER.
CHAPTER XIV. TO ZUNI.
CHAPTER XV. THE GRAND CANYON.
PREFACE.
On my return from the first exploration of the canyons of the Colorado, I found that our journey had been
the theme of much newspaper writing. A story of disaster had been circulated, with many particulars of
hardship and tragedy, so that it was currently believed throughout the United States that all the members
of the party were lost save one. A good friend of mine had gathered a great number of obituary notices,
and it was interesting and rather flattering to me to discover the high esteem in which I had been held by
the people of the United States. In my supposed death I had attained to a glory which I fear my continued
life has not fully vindicated.
The exploration was not made for adventure, but purely for scientific purposes, geographic and geologic,
and I had no intention of writing an account of it, but only of recording the scientific results. Immediately
on my return I was interviewed a number of times, and these interviews were published in the daily
press; and here I supposed all interest in the exploration ended. But in 1874 the editors of Scribner's
Monthly requested me to publish a popular account of the Colorado exploration in that journal. To this I
acceded and prepared four short articles, which were elaborately illustrated from photographs in my
possession.
In the same year - 1874 - at the instance of Professor Henry of the Smithsonian Institution, I was called
before an appropriations committee of the House of Representatives to explain certain estimates made by
the Professor for funds to continue scientific work which had been in progress from the date of the
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