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The Romance of the Colorado River by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh
page 12 of 302 (03%)
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
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