![]() Wanderings of the trappers and fur traders General Ashley in Green River Valley, 1824 Pattie along the Grand Canyon, 1826 Lieutenant Hardy, R.N., in a schooner on the lower Colorado, 1826 Jedediah Smith, Salt Lake to San Gabriel, 1826 Pattie on the lower Colorado in canoes, 1827-28 - Fremont, the pathfinder. A remarkable ancient ruin discovered by Padre Kino, 1694 Padre Garces sees the Grand Canyon and visits Oraibi, 1776 The great Entrada of Padre Escalante across Green River to Utah Lake, 1776 Death of Garces ends the Entrada Period, 1781 - Breaking the wilderness. ![]() Character of the Colorado River The water-gods erosion and corrasion The Natives and their highways The "Green River Valley" of the old trappers The strange vegetation and some singular animals - O~nate, 1604, crosses Arizona to the Colorado. ![]() Alarcon ascends it eighty-five leagues and names it the Rio de Buena Guia Melchior Diaz arrives at its banks later and calls it the Rio del Tizon Cardenas discovers the Grand Canyon - The Grand Canyon. Ulloa, 1539, one of the captains of Cortes, almost solves it, but turns back without discovering Alarcon, 1540, conquers - The unknown river. Putnam's Sons, 1903, Ĭontents: The secret of the Gulf. ![]() The romance of the Colorado River : the story of its discovery in 1540, with an account of the later explorations, and with special reference to the voyages of Powell through the line of the great canyons By ![]()
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