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    Adventures in the Canyons of the Colorado By two of its earliest explorers
    Adventures in the Canyons of the Colorado By two of its earliest explorers
    Adventures in the Canyons of the Colorado By two of its earliest explorers
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    Adventures in the Canyons of the Colorado By two of its earliest explorers

    By William Wallace Bass

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Adventures in the Canyons of the Colorado By two of its earliest explorers - William Wallace Bass

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Adventures in the Canyons of the Colorado, by

      William Wallace Bass

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Adventures in the Canyons of the Colorado

      By two of its earliest explorers

      Author: William Wallace Bass

      Release Date: March 6, 2011 [EBook #35268]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ADVENTURES IN CANYONS OF COLORADO ***

      Produced by Al Haines and Chris Lindberg

      Mr. W. W. Bass with his old indian friend. Mr. Bass has written the tradition and history of the Havasupai Indians and taught them our language.

      Adventures

      in the Canyons of the Colorado

      By two of its earliest explorers,

      James White and W. W. Hawkins

      with introduction and notes

      by

      WILLIAM WALLACE BASS

      The Grand Canyon Guide

      1920

      Published at Grand Canyon, Arizona

      by the Authors

      Copyright, 1920

      by

      WILLIAM WALLACE BASS

      Grand Canyon, Ariz.

      FOREWORD

      BY GEORGE WHARTON JAMES

      Author of In and Around the Grand Canyon, Arizona the Wonderland, The Grand Canyon of Arizona, New Mexico, the Land of the Delightmakers, etc., etc.

      The more the people of the United States know of their scenic wonderlands the more interest will there be aroused as to who first saw this or the other of them. The arousement of this especial interest in regard to the Grand Canyon and its tributaries is growingly apparent. A hundred thousand Americans see the Grand Canyon today where one saw it at the time of my first visit, nearly forty years ago.

      Among the hordes of people attracted to the Grand Canyon by curiosity, scenic allurement, business, pleasure or what not, but two have gained any fame as guides to its wondrous depths and rim revelations. These two are John Hance and William Wallace Bass. I knew Hance long before he had dreamed that the Canyon would help make him famous; I ate venison stew with him when he was but a cowboy in the employ of the proprietor of the Hull ranch; I wrote the first account of those peculiar and exaggerated yarns of his that gained him his fame as the Munchausen of the West. It was on these yarns alone that his fame reposed. He was never a guide. He knew nothing of the Canyon, east or west, twenty miles from the trail that unfortunately was named after him. He never read a line of its history, and never cared to know who first discovered it. He got lost years after the Canyon was being visited by great numbers of whites, when he attempted to guide a party to the home of the Havasupai Indians, whose ancestors made the trail which he discovered and claimed as his own.

      On the other hand, William Wallace Bass, who came to the Canyon some years ahead of Hance, felt its peculiar allurements from the first moment he saw it. There is no man living who has been more deeply interested in studying its geological history, in searching the tomes of the past for stories of its discovery, and in promoting the intelligent interests of literary men, artists, photographers, poets, geologists, students and tourists who have come to visit it than has he. His library upon the subject is exhaustive and complete, and he is so well versed in some features of its local geology, that he has changed many a scientist's opinions as to the secret of its formation and development. John C. Van Dyke wrote truly of him when he said in his recent book on the Grand Canyon, he has been 'the guide, philosopher and friend' of almost every geologist at the Canyon. Unquestionably he knows the geology of the region.

      Born in Shelbyville, Indiana, in 1848, he came

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