A Canyon Voyage: The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition Down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1908 - 277 Seiten Practically a second volume of the author's "Romance of the Colorado river". cf. Pref. The only detailed account of the second descent of the Colorado river under the leadership of J. W. Powell. The narrative of the first Expedition of 1869 was published by the Smithsonian institution in 1875 in a report issued under title: Exploration of the Colorado river of the West and its tributaries. |
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A Canyon Voyage: The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition Down the ... Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1984 |
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Andy arrived bank blankets boats bottom buttes cabin called camp Cañonita cedars Clem cliffs climbed Colorado River cottonwood Creek crossing dark Dean deep descent dinner Dirty Devil Dirty Devil River distance Dodds E. O. Beaman eight expedition F. S. Dellenbaugh feet high fire foot G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS George Adair gorge Grand Canyon Green River gulch horses hundred feet Indian J. K. HILLERS Jack Jacob Jones Kaibab Kaibab Plateau Kanab Canyon land let-down Lodore Major and Prof Marble Canyon Mormon morning mountain mouth narrow Navajo Mountain Navajos night noon o'clock oars pack Pai Utes Paria party Photograph by E. O. plateau portage Powell pulled rapid reached rocks rode Salt Lake sandstone seemed Shewits side snow soon spring Steward stopped stream thousand feet took trail Uinkarets Uinta Uinta River Vado valley waggon walls Whirlpool Canyon
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Seite 261 - Jl Selection from the Catalogue of GP PUTNAM'S SONS Complete Catalogues sent on application Breaking the Wilderness The story of the Conquest of the Far West, from the Wanderings of Cabeza de Vaca to the first Descent of the Colorado by Powell, and the Completion of the Union Pacific Railway. With particular
Seite 128 - Often I think of the beautiful town That is seated by the sea ; Often in thought go up and down The pleasant streets of that dear old town, And my youth comes back to me. And a verse of a Lapland song Is haunting my memory still: 'A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts."
Seite 132 - Flow gently, sweet Afton! among thy green braes, Flow gently, I '11 sing thee a song in thy praise; My Mary "s asleep by thy murmuring stream— Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream.
Seite 85 - A land of streams! some, like a downward smoke, Slow dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go; And some thro' wavering lights and shadows broke, Rolling a slumbrous sheet of foam below. They saw the gleaming river seaward flow From the inner land; far off three mountain-tops, Three silent pinnacles of aged snow, Stood sunset-flushed; and, dew'd with showery drops, Up-clomb the shadowy pine above the
Seite 59 - I will sing you a song of that beautiful land, The far away home of the soul, Where no storms ever beat on the glittering strand, While the years of eternity roll, While the years of eternity roll; Where no storms ever beat on the glittering strand While the years of eternity roll.
Seite 59 - Where no storms ever beat on the glittering strand While the years of eternity roll. " Oh ! that home of the soul in my visions and dreams, Its bright jasper walls I can see ; Till I fancy but thinly the veil intervenes Between the fair city and me
Seite 140 - We were not many—we who stood Before the iron sleet that day; Yet many a gallant spirit would Give half his years if but he could Have been with us at Monterey.
Seite 162 - There was no burr of grasshopper No chirp of any bird, But the beating of my own heart Was all the sound I heard.
Seite 111 - Hurrying down to its grave, the sea, And slow through the rock its pathway hewing! Far down, through the mist of the falling river, Which rises up like an incense ever, The splintered points of the crags are seen, With water howling and vexed between, While the scooping whirl of the pool beneath Seems an open throat, with its granite teeth!
Seite 128 - Old Floyd Ireson, for his hard heart, Tarred and feathered and carried in a cart By the women of Marblehead!