Grand Canyon Historic Grandview Trail . Looking up at grandview point from horseshoe mesa, canyon copper co. Mine property. Circa 1907. Impressions of the dazzling topography of Grand Canyon have changed and shifted since that day in the summer of 1540 when Garcia Lopez de Cardenas gazed out from the South Rim. The conquistador saw a worthless desert wasteland, nothing more than a barrier to political expansion. At the opposite extreme

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