The national parks portfolio . could be heard on distant mountain summits. The Indians feared it. Even the hardiest of frontiersmen refused it. It remained for a geologist and a school-teacher, a one-armed veteran ofthe Civil War, John Wesley Powell, afterwards director of the United StatesGeological Survey, to dare and to accompHsh. This was in 1869, Nine men accompanied him in four boats. There proved to be no impassable whirlpools in the Grand Canyon, nounderground passages, and no cataracts. But tlie trip was hazardous in theextreme. The adventurers faced the unknown at every bend, daily—s
The national parks portfolio . could be heard on distant mountain summits. The Indians feared it. Even the hardiest of frontiersmen refused it. It remained for a geologist and a school-teacher, a one-armed veteran ofthe Civil War, John Wesley Powell, afterwards director of the United StatesGeological Survey, to dare and to accompHsh. This was in 1869, Nine men accompanied him in four boats. There proved to be no impassable whirlpools in the Grand Canyon, nounderground passages, and no cataracts. But tlie trip was hazardous in theextreme. The adventurers faced the unknown at every bend, daily—some-times several times daily—embarking upon swift rapids without guessing uponwhat rocks or in what great falls they might terminate. Continually theyupset. They were unable to build fires sometimes for days at a stretch. Four men deserted, hoping to climb the walls, and were never heard fromagain—and this happened the very day before Major Powell and his faithfulhalf dozen floated clear of the Grand Canyon into Photograph by U. S. Geological Survey Two OF THE Boats Used by Major Powell in Exploring the Canyon
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