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Historical Sites in Glen Canyon Mouth of San Juan River to Lee's Ferry
No full textJournal: Anthropological Notes, University of Utah Department of Anthropology, "Historical Sites in Glen Canyon, Mouth of San Juan River to Lee's Ferry", Number 46, June 1960, page 71where the Dominguez-Escalante party had stayed October 26-November 1,1776. They did not know that the Spaniards had already named the Echo Cliffs, La Cuesta de las Animas (see Dominguez-Escalante expedition, Chapter I, this work). For additional information about the Powell Survey, see Lee's Ferry (Historical site 19).
Bibliographical Notes
Major Powell, George Y. Bradley, and John C. Sumner, all kept daily accounts of the 1869 expedition. These have been brought together under one cover and edited by W. C. Darrah (1947). Bradley's diary is the fullest and generally is the most useful. Powell's journal July 2-August 28, 1869, consists of brief notes mostly of geological matter. Sumner's journal often provides data not found in the other two. Another account by Sumner of the 1869 trip, together with one by William Hawkins, appears in Stanton (1932).
Powell is published account of the 1869 voyage which appeared in 1875 is actually a composite of the 1869 and 1871 voyages. He uses the 1869 dates and, for the most part, describes things seen and done on the 1871 trip.
The 1871 Powell voyage on the Colorado River is marvellously well documented. However, beyond E. O. Beaman's magazine account in 1874 and Powell's 1875 volume, which disguises the 1871 expedition and curiously mentions none of the 1871 personnel save A. H. Thompson, this documentation has all appeared in published form long after the events took place. Frederick S. Dellenbaugh in 1902 in his Romance of the Colorado River placed the two Powell expeditions into the perspective of history and he followed this in 1908 (second editon in 1926) with A Canyon Voyage, based on his own diary and that of A. H. Thompson, the first published account of the 1871 voyage. Thompson's diary appeared in 1939 edited by Herbert E. Gregory. F. M. Bishop's journal appeared in 1947 edited by Charles Kelly, with introduction by Ralph V. Chamberlin. The Utah State Historical Society, which has done so much to foster scholarship on the Colorado River, has the manuscript copy of F. M. Bishop's map made during the 1871 voyage. Campsites and even noon stops are shown; it is of high value in tracing the course of the expedition through Glen Canyon. Unfortunately, one section of the map portraying Glen Canyon is missing. The journals of Stephen V. Jones, edited by Herbert E. Gregory, of John F. Steward, edited by W. C. Darrah, of W. C. Powell, edited by Charles Kelly, together with material on Beaman, Fennemore, Hillers, Dellenbaugh,
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Historical Sites in Glen Canyon Mouth of San Juan River to Lee's Ferry
No full textJournal: Anthropological Notes, University of Utah Department of Anthropology, "Historical Sites in Glen Canyon, Mouth of San Juan River to Lee's Ferry", Number 46, June 1960, page 72Johnson, Hattan, and Hall, edited by W. C. Darrah, all appeared in the Utah Historical Quarterly, XVI-XVII in one (1948-1949). Reference to these journals from the text above may be made easily by the day of the month and the year. The Bishop map has been used to fix locations.
The book length studies of Powell and his survey by Darrah (1951) and Stegner (1954) place the two expeditions in the perspective of Powell's lifetime of achievement. See also Crampton (1959) for the place the Powell survey holds in the general history of the Glen Canyon region. Powell's (1874) preliminary report anticipates the longer one published the following year. A. H. Thompson was placed in charge of the topographical work of the survey after the completion of the second voyage and his diary edited by Gregory (1939) and the book of his assistant Frederick S. Dellenbaugh (1926), are particularly valuable for that activity. Thompson does have a chapter in Powell's (1875) book containing a report on a trip to the mouth of the Dirty Devil in 1872, a part of the topographical survey.
The overlapping of the Wheeler and Powell surveys is clarified by Stegner (1954). The work of the Wheeler survey in the Glen Canyon region was minor although atlas sheet no. 67, based largely on Powell and Ives, is a useful map covering the lower portion of Glen Canyon as well as the Grand Canyon. The summary volume by Wheeler (1889) tells of the limited operations in the Glen Canyon region. Gregory (1945) summarizes scientific explorations in southern Utah.
A systematic survey of Navajo Creek and its canyon has been under way since 1954 and since 1957 this has been incorporated into the general National Park Service study of the upper Colorado River Basin, here administered through the Museum of Northern Arizona. In 1957 Miller and Breternitz (1958a) surveyed the lower portion of the canyon; next year (1958b) they surveyed the upper northeastern tributaries of the drainage.
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Historical Sites in Glen Canyon Mouth of San Juan River to Lee's Ferry
No full textJournal: Anthropological Notes, University of Utah Department of Anthropology, "Historical Sites in Glen Canyon, Mouth of San Juan River to Lee's Ferry", Number 46, June 1960, page 92this story and the similar one James told, after Galloway, back in 1900. Later river men have suggested the name Galloway as being the most appropriate name for the cave.
On the flat wall at the back of the cave a number of names appear, mostly written in charcoal, among them: N Galloway Jan 6, 1894, Oc 25/1897 (Fig. 30). Under this appears: J. A. Galloway July 11, 1955. There are many other names especially those of late river parties. Many of the older names are illegible. The following apparently authentic names besides those of the Galloways have been deciphered: G. Wright Dec 23 1893 (see Historical site 104-Wright Bar); E, Mesken ( name also appears at Loper Cave on Wright Bar; see also Historical site 17 - Mesken Bar); P. W. Johnson Sept. 21 1921; W. W. Jones Aug 19, 1922; J. D. Stegler Sept 14, 1931; Roy [Retener ?]; Jerry Johnson; Bill [Siegenthaler?]; Roy Peterson; W. E. Johnson, Nevills [?]. 9-41.
Historical site 1-Glen Canyon Dam
A basic unit in the Colorado River Storage Project, authorized by an act of Congress in 1956 and a culmination of forces which had taken shape by 1922, Glen Canyon dam is under construction at mile 15.2. (See Crampton 1959, 65-73 for a summary of the reclamation history of the upper Colorado River basin to 1922).
Bibliographical Notes
The history of mining in Glen Canyon is told in bold outline by Crampton (1959). Three professional papers published by the U.S. Geological Survey have material on gold mining in Glen Canyon: Butler and others (1920); Gregory and Moore (1931); Hunt and others (1953). The public records of San Juan (Monticello), and Kane (Kanab) counties, Utah, and Coconino (Flagstaff) County, Arizona, in the custody of the county recorders have been consulted for mining locations. Often the earliest recorded locations are described so generally as to make their location in terms of modern nomenclature difficult. The many locations made by Stanton and the Hoskaninni Company in the lower canyon are recorded in: Book I, Mines, Kane County; Books B-C, Mines, San Juan County; Book I, Mines, Coconino County. The location of the mine at Klondike Bar is recorded in Book I, Mines, p. 80, Kane County. Louis M. Chaffin, one of the original locators living in 1959 at Payson, Utah, provided valuable information about the carly history of Klondike Bar.
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Historical Sites in Glen Canyon Mouth of San Juan River to Lee's Ferry
No full textJournal: Anthropological Notes, University of Utah Department of Anthropology, "Historical Sites in Glen Canyon, Mouth of San Juan River to Lee's Ferry", Number 46, June 1960, page 93The earliest location on Mesken Bar was made on September 18, 1889 by E. Mesken, Book I, Mines, Kane County. There is a brief discussion of the operation of the American Placer Corporation in Gregory and Moore (1931, 148). The extensive locations made by the company in the vicinity of Lee's Ferry are recorded in Coconino County, Record of Mines, 8, pp. 86-165. Details on the operation of the company's boats appears in testimony given by Herman Rosenfelt, Herman W. Freeze, and John W. Palmer, in U. S. vs. Utah, (1929), abstract... (1931).
The original locations at Wright Bar are recorded in Coconino County, Record of Mines, I, 194; those of 1910, in the same series, volume 6 May 19, 20, 21, 25, 1910. Bert Loper's experiences on Wright Bar are recorded in his diary reproduced in part in an unpublished biography of Loper by Pearl Baker.
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Historical Sites in Glen Canyon Mouth of San Juan River to Lee's Ferry
No full textJournal: Anthropological Notes, University of Utah Department of Anthropology, "Historical Sites in Glen Canyon, Mouth of San Juan River to Lee's Ferry", Number 46, June 1960, page 100of record so far located were the surveyors of the K. W. Trimble party in 1921 who were at the time surveying the San Juan River for the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the Southern California Edison Company. The Kolb brothers in 1911 had planned to walk up to the Bridge from the Colorado, but missed the mouth of Aztec Creek (Kolb 1914, 166-167). Ellsworth L. Kolb was with the U. S. Geological Survey party in 1921 and it may have been at that time that, on the cliff wall at the extreme right mouth of Aztec Creek, he chipped a rude image of the Bridge and an arrow indicating that it is located six (actually 4.6) miles upstream, and his name (Fig. 37).
About 150 yards north of the Kolb glyph on the low cliff wall of Glen Canyon and about 30 ft. above the river terrace, the word BRIDGE appears (Fig. 38). It has been picked out in letters about 2 ft. high. This, facing upstream, was obviously places to indicate the location of Aztec Creek to parties coming down the river. The Aztec Creek entrance is not easy to see from points upstream and numbers of river tourists have gone down over Aziec Rapids before realizing they had overshot the landing. The origin of this glyph has not been determined. It has weathered considerably and may be seen today from the river for a few hundred yards if one knows exactly where to look.
Bernheimer (1924) reports a number of archeological sites in the Forbidding Canyon drainage apart from the ruins at the mouth.
Historical site 30 Rainbow Bridge
Thought by many to be the finest scenic gem in the United States, Rainbow Bridge, a natural arch of sandstone, spans Bridge Creek, a righthand tributary of Aztec Creek (Historical site 29). It is located 4.6 trail miles from the Colorado River at the mouth of Aztec Creek. The arch, according to measurements taken by W. B. Douglass, stands 309 ft. above the creek bed and 235 ft. above the top of the inner canyon upon which the abutments rest. The span is 278 ft. At the highest point the arch is 42 ft. thick and 33 ft. wide. These measurements to many viewers hold little meaning. The bridge in its natural setting seems smaller than it really is; one must compare it with buildings of known height to appreciate its size.
Credit for the effective discovery of Rainbow Bridge must be accorded to Dean Byron Cummings, of the University of Utah, who in 1909 organized an exploring party to look for the bridge, the existence of which had been reported several years before to the Wetherills at
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Historical Sites in Glen Canyon Mouth of San Juan River to Lee's Ferry
No full textJournal: Anthropological Notes, University of Utah Department of Anthropology, "Historical Sites in Glen Canyon, Mouth of San Juan River to Lee's Ferry", Number 46, June 1960, page 113Kluckohn, Clyde, and Dorothea Leighton
1958 The Navaho. Cambridge.
Kolb, E. L.
1914 Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico with a Foreword by Owen Wister. New York.
Little, James A.
1881 Jacob Hamblin, a Narrative of His Personal Experience as a Frontiersman, Missionary to the Indians and Explorer... Salt Lake City.
Lowie, Robert H.
1924 Notes on Shoshonean Ethnography. American Museum of Natural History, Anthropological Papers, Vol. XX, Part III, pp. 183-314.
Macomb, J. N.
1876 Report of the Exploring Expedition from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to the Junction of the Grand and Green Rivers of the Great Colorado of the West in 1859, under the Command of Capt. J. N. Macomb; with a Geological Report by Prof. J. S. Newberry. Washington, D. C.
Miller, David E.
1958 Discovery of Glen Canyon. Utah Historical Quarterly, Vol. XXVI, pp. 220-237. Salt Lake City.
Miller, William C., and David A. Breternitz
1958a 1957 Navajo Canyon Survey Preliminary Report, Plateau, Vol. XXX, pp. 72-74.
1958b 1958 Navajo Canyon Survey Preliminary Report, Plateau, pp. 3-7.
Miser, H. D., K. W. Trimble and Sidney Paige
1923 The Rainbow Bridge, Utah. Geographical Review, XIII, pp. 518-531.
Morris, Earl H.
1922 An Unexplored Area of the Southwest. Natural History, pp. 499-515.
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Historical Sites in Glen Canyon Mouth of San Juan River to Lee's Ferry
No full textJournal: Anthropological Notes, University of Utah Department of Anthropology, "Historical Sites in Glen Canyon, Mouth of San Juan River to Lee's Ferry", Number 46, June 1960, page 118Woolley, Edwin G.
1869 Journal of a Scouting Expedition Against Marauding Navajo Indians Feb. 25, 1869 to March 12, 1869 (MS., Military Records Section, Utah State Historical Society).
Yost, Billie Williams
1958 Bread upon the Sands... [foreword by] Merle Armitage. Caldwell, Idaho.
Young, Stuart M.
1959 Statement...Concerning the Discovery of Rainbow Bridge, Cummings Publication Council, Bulletin 1, p. 14. Tucson.
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Historical Sites in Glen Canyon Mouth of San Juan River to Lee's Ferry
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Pacific Southwest Water Plan - Appendix of August 1963
No full textDocument: Appendix to Pacific Southwest Water Plan of August 1963 as modified January 1964, January 1964, coverUnited States
Department of the Interior
Stewart L. Udall, Secretary
Pacific Southwest
WATER PLAN
APPENDIX of AUGUST 1963
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