. In & around the Grand Canyon; the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River in Arizona . uck up in the ground, and before Diaz could stop or turnhis horse, which was running loose, the socket pierced hisgroin. The soldiers could do little to relieve his suffer-ings, and he died before they reached the settlement,where they arrived January 18, 1541. —George ParkerVVlNSHIP. In 1746 Padre Consag explored the Gulf of Cal-ifornia as far as the mouth of the Colorado River,and in 1776 Sylvestre Escalante, a Spanish priest,crossed the river in Glen Canyon, at a placestill known as El Vado de los Padres, —
. In & around the Grand Canyon; the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River in Arizona . uck up in the ground, and before Diaz could stop or turnhis horse, which was running loose, the socket pierced hisgroin. The soldiers could do little to relieve his suffer-ings, and he died before they reached the settlement,where they arrived January 18, 1541. —George ParkerVVlNSHIP. In 1746 Padre Consag explored the Gulf of Cal-ifornia as far as the mouth of the Colorado River,and in 1776 Sylvestre Escalante, a Spanish priest,crossed the river in Glen Canyon, at a placestill known as El Vado de los Padres, — the cross-ing of the fathers. About the same time, PadreFrancisco Garces travelled extensively in the regionof the canyon and visited the Havasupais in Cat-aract Canyon. i6 IN AND AROUND Early in this century Lieutenant Hardy of theBritish Navy made a Hmited survey of the lowerwaters of the Colorado, and in 1846-47 the UnitedStates Army of the West crossed on their wayto California. In 1853 the Sitgreaves expedition—which leftits sien in the name Mount Sito^reaves, a moun-. The Colorado River and the Needles, California. tain near the San Francisco range—was organ-ized for the purpose of determining whether theZuni River flowed into the Colorado. This party,after travelling below^ the Falls of the Little Col-orado, in its westward journeyings, struck the Colo-rado River about a hundred and fifty miles aboveYuma. Three years later, Lieutenant Whipples survey THE GRAND CANYON 17 for a practical railroad route to the Pacific Coastalong the thirty-fifth parallel led him to the Col-orado River, and an exploration was made of theBlack Canyon (below the Grand) and of the lowerportion of the Grand Canyon as high up asDiamond Creek. It is possible there may have been expeditionsthrough the Canyon made by adventurous whiteexplorers even before the time of Powell, but thisis only conjecture, based upon the fact that in thelower part of Cataract Canyon Mr. Stanton dis-covered the n
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