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
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