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 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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 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 Shewits side snow soon spring Steward stopped stream thousand feet took trail trees Uinkarets Uinta Uinta River Vado valley waggon walls Whirlpool Canyon
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Seite 132 - 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 138 - FLOW gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise ; My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream, Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream. Thou stock-dove whose echo resounds thro...
Seite 93 - Full-faced above the valley stood the moon ; And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. 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.
Seite 144 - 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. Now here, now there, the shot it hailed In deadly drifts of fiery spray, Yet not a single soldier quailed When wounded comrades round them wailed Their dying shout at Monterey. And on, still on our column kept, Through walls of flame, its withering way ; Where...
Seite 69 - 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.
Seite 168 - But the beating of my own heart Was all the sound I heard. He came not — no, he came not! The night came on alone...
Seite 132 - O wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as others see us!
Seite 93 - And some thro' wavering lights and shadows broke, Bo1ling a slumbrous sheet of foam below. They saw the gleaming river seaward flow From the inner land ; far off, three...
Seite 132 - Said old Floyd Ireson, for his hard heart, Tarred and feathered and carried in a cart By the women of Marblehead! Then the wife of the skipper lost at sea Said, "God has touched him! Why should we?