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 . re. We were working witha stream different from the Green River, we found, andthe Defiance was taken from the water the next day andslowly worked, one end at a time, over the rocks, up to alevel sand-bank, twenty-five or thirty feet above theriver. Then we put rollers under her, and worked herdown past the rapid. This work was little to our liking,for the boats, now pretty well water-soaked, weighedconsiderably more than their original fi
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 . re. We were working witha stream different from the Green River, we found, andthe Defiance was taken from the water the next day andslowly worked, one end at a time, over the rocks, up to alevel sand-bank, twenty-five or thirty feet above theriver. Then we put rollers under her, and worked herdown past the rapid. This work was little to our liking,for the boats, now pretty well water-soaked, weighedconsiderably more than their original five hundredpounds weight. A few successful plunges soon brought back ourformer confidence, and we continued to run all otherrapids that presented themselves. This afternoon wepassed the first rapid we remembered having seen, wherewe could not land at its head before running it. A slightlyhigher stage of water, however, would have made manysuch rapids. Just below this point we found the bodyof a bighorn mountain-sheep floating in an eddy. It wasimpossible to tell just how he came to his death. Therewas no sign of any great fall that we could see. He had. § X a O C 3 a!
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