Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
The Grand River has its source in the Rocky Mountains, five or six miles west of Long’s Peak, in latitude 40° 17′ and longitude 105° 43′ approximately. A group of little alpine lakes, that receive their waters directly from perpetual snow-banks, discharge into a common reservo...
The Grand River has its source in the Rocky Mountains, five or six miles west of Long’s Peak, in latitude 40° 17′ and longitude 105° 43′ approximately. A group of little alpine...
2. CHAPTER II FROM GREEN RIVER CITY TO FLAMING GORGEMay 24, 1869.--The good people of Green River City turn out to see us start. We raise our little flag, push the boats from shore, and the swift current carries us down.
3. CHAPTER III FROM FLAMING GORGE TO THE GATE OF LODOREYou must not think of a mountain-range as a line of peaks standing on a plain, but as a broad platform many miles wide, from which mountains have been carved by the waters. You...
4. CHAPTER IV THE CANYON OF LODOREHere I must explain our method of proceeding at such places. The _Emma Dean_ goes in advance; the other boats follow, in obedience to signals. When we approach a rapid, or what,...
5. CHAPTER V FROM ECHO PARK TO THE MOUTH OF THE UINTA RIVERThe Yampa enters the Green from the east. At a point opposite its mouth, the Green runs to the south, at the foot of a rock, about seven hundred feet high and a mile long, and t...
6. CHAPTER VI FROM THE MOUTH OF THE UINTA RIVER TO THE JUNCTION OF THEJuly 6.--Start early this morning. A short distance below the mouth of the Uinta, we come to the head of a long island. Last winter, a man named Johnson, a hunter and Indian tra...
7. CHAPTER VII FROM THE JUNCTION OF THE GRAND AND GREEN TO THE MOUTH OFJuly 18.--The day is spent in obtaining the time, and spreading our rations, which, we find, are badly injured. The flour has been wet and dried so many times that it is all mus...
8. CHAPTER VIII THE GRAND CANYON OF THE COLORADOAugust 13.--We are now ready to start on our way down the Great Unknown. Our boats, tied to a common stake, are chafing each other, as they are tossed by the fretful river. They...
9. CHAPTER IX THE RIO VIRGEN AND THE U-IN-KA-RET MOUNTAINS[10We have determined to continue the exploration of the cañons of the Colorado. Our last trip was so hurried, owing to the loss of rations, and the scientific instruments were so...