Identifier: throughgrandcany00kolb (find matches)
Title: Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico, with a foreword by Owen Wister;new edition with (72 plates) from photographs by the author and his brother
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Kolb, E. L. (Ellsworth Leonardson), b. 1876
Subjects: Grand Canyon (Ariz.)
Publisher: New York : The MacMillan Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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te likely they spent many of the long hours of theirconvalescence on the river bank, or on the little island,watching the unruffled stream glide underneath the cot-ton woods. Such tales as this added nothing to our fears, of course— for the whole history of the Colorado is one long storyof hardship and disaster, and we knew, even better thanour advisors, what risks lay before us. We told our new-found friends, in fact, that we had lived for years on thebrink of the Grand Canyon itself, a gorge deeper and moreawful, even, than Lodore; with a volume of water tentimes greater. We knew, of course, of the rivers vastlength, of the terrible gorges that confined it, of thehundreds of rapids through which a boat would haveto pass. We knew, too, how Major Powell, undismayed bylegends of underground channels, impassable cataracts,and whirlpools; of bloodthirsty tribes haunting its re-cesses, — had passed through the canyons in safety, meas-uring and surveying as he went. We also knew of the
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OPI/Tight lii/ Kulll Hru< IN THE GRAM) CANYON NEAR THE LITTLE COLORADO. GREEN RIVER CITY, WYOMING 7 many other attempts that had been made — most of themending in disaster or death, a very few being successful. Well, it had been done ;i it could be done again — thiswas our answer to their premonitions. We had present worries enough to keep us from dwell-ing too much on the future. It had been our intention tostart two weeks earlier, but there had been numerousunavoidable delays. The river was low; the lowestthey had seen it in years they told us, and falling lowerevery day. There were the usual difficulties of arranginga lot of new material, and putting it in working order. At last we were ready for the boats, and you may besure we lost no time in having them hauled to the river,and launching them. They were beauties — these two boats of ours — grace-ful, yet strong in line, floating easily, well up in the water,in spite of their five hundred pounds weight. They wereflat-bo

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