Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . ls of 7,000 feet, and then we spent several daysat the base of the Iron Mountains collecting more prairie-dogs and other rodents at an elevation of . feet. OnJune 8 we returned to Bellevue. A few nights later, at a camp fire gathering, I arrangedfor a trip to the Kolob Plateau with William Wright, asturdy, prepossessing young JVIormon. We ^^ere to startfrom his home town, Virgin City, twenty miles southeastfrom Bellevue, on June 20. The problem of how to get tothis place with my equipment solved itself satisfactorily onthe 19th, when a merchant returning to Vir
Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . ls of 7,000 feet, and then we spent several daysat the base of the Iron Mountains collecting more prairie-dogs and other rodents at an elevation of . feet. OnJune 8 we returned to Bellevue. A few nights later, at a camp fire gathering, I arrangedfor a trip to the Kolob Plateau with William Wright, asturdy, prepossessing young JVIormon. We ^^ere to startfrom his home town, Virgin City, twenty miles southeastfrom Bellevue, on June 20. The problem of how to get tothis place with my equipment solved itself satisfactorily onthe 19th, when a merchant returning to Virgin City, foundhimself without a teamster and I offered my services in ex-change for the transportation. IVIy wagon w^as loaded withsacks of oats so torn that the grain constantly scattered overthe road. We left Bellevue at eight in the morning andreached Virgin City at ten that night. I had earned niypassage. A delay in obtaining camping supplies, of which Wrightinformed me in the morning, gave opportunity to visit Zion 42. 2ION CANYON NEAR WYLIES CAMP The canyon walls rise 2000 to 4000 feet above the creek bed, in a wonderful display of sculptures and color
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