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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
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eranch and post-office as well. Mail is brought by carrierfrom the south, a cross-country trip of 160 miles,through the Hopi and Navajo Indian Reservations. Johnson informed us that an old-time friend namedDave Rust had waited here three or four days, hopingto see us arrive, but business matters had forced him toleave just the day before. We were very sorry to havemissed him. Rust lived in the little Mormon town ofKanab, Utah, eighty miles north of the Grand Canyonopposite our home. In addition to being a cattle manand rancher, he had superintended the construction of acable crossing, or tramway, over the Colorado River,beside the mouth of Bright Angel Creek, not many milesfrom our home. He also maintains a cozy camp at thisplace, for the accommodation of tourists and hunting par-ties, which he conducts up Bright Angel Creek andinto the Kaibab Forest. It was while returning fromsuch a hunting trip that we first met Rust. Many arethe trips we have taken with him since then, Emery, with
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A WARNING 175 his wife and the baby, even, making the crossingand the eighty-mile horseback ride to his home in Kanab,while I had continued on through to Salt Lake City.Rust had been the first to tell us of Galloway and hisboating methods; and had given us a practical demon-stration on the river. Naturally there was no one wewould have been more pleased to see at that place,than Rust. In our mail we found a letter from him, stating, amongother things, that he had camped the night before onthe plateau, a few hundred feet above a certain big rapid,well known through this section as the Soap Creek Rapid.This locality is credited with being the scene of the firstfatality which overtook the Brown-Stanton expedition;Brown being upset and drowned in the next rapid whichfollowed, after having portaged the Soap Creek Rapid.Rust wrote also that there was a shore along the rapid,so there would be no difficulty in making the portage ; andconcluded by saying that he had a very impressive dreamabou

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