Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico, with a foreword by Owen Wister;new edition with (72 plates) from photographs by the author and his brother . SIGNALLING OUR CANYON HOME 205 were at the end of the Tanner Trail, the outlet of the LittleColorado Trail to the rim above. It had taken sevenhours of toil to cover the same ground we now sped overin an hour and a quarter. Major Powell, in 1872,found here the remnant of a very small hut built of mes-quite logs, but whether the remains of an Indians orwhite mans shelter cannot be stated. The trail, withoutdoubt, was used by the Indians be
Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico, with a foreword by Owen Wister;new edition with (72 plates) from photographs by the author and his brother . SIGNALLING OUR CANYON HOME 205 were at the end of the Tanner Trail, the outlet of the LittleColorado Trail to the rim above. It had taken sevenhours of toil to cover the same ground we now sped overin an hour and a quarter. Major Powell, in 1872,found here the remnant of a very small hut built of mes-quite logs, but whether the remains of an Indians orwhite mans shelter cannot be stated. The trail, withoutdoubt, was used by the Indians before the white man in-vaded this region. The canyon had changed again from one which wasvery narrow to one much more complex, greater, andgrander. The walls on top were many miles apart;Comanche Point, to our left, was over 4000 feet above us ;Desert View, Moran Point, and other points on thesouth rim were even higher. On the right we couldsee an arch near Cape Final on Greenland Point, over5000 feet up, that we had photographed, from the top,a few years before. Pagoda-shaped temples — the forma-tion so typical of the Grand Canyon — clustered on a
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