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The Grand Canyon Of Arizona: How To See It
By George Wharton James Author of "In and Out
of the Old Missions," "The Wonders of the Colorado Desert,"
"Through Ramona's Country," etc. Revised Edition Boston: Little,
Brown, and Company Kansas City: Fred Harvey 1912 PREFACE TO
REVISED EDITION
Because of the completion of a new driveway
along the Rim of the Grand Canyon, and of a new trail to the
Colorado River, a second edition of this book is deemed necessary.
These improvements, which have recently been made by the Santa
Fe Railway, are known as Hermit Rim Road and Hermit Trail.
The first, sai to be the most unique road in the world, is
nine miles long on the brink of the Canyon, and the other,
a wide and safe pathway down the south wall.
The contents of the volume has been revised,
and descriptions of Hermi Rim Road and Hermit Trail have been
added. There are also new portions describing the drives and
trips that may be taken through the forest on the Rim and
in the Canyon itself, each carefully planned so that the traveler
may devote to sightseeing whatever amount of time he desires.
With these additions and alterations, the original
plan to provide a convenient handbook for all travelers to
the Grand Canyon is more complete.
FOREWORD
Upwards of ten years ago I sat on the south
rim of the Grand Canyon an wrote "In and Around the Grand
Canyon." In that book I included much that more than a decade
of wandering up and down the trails of this great abyss had
taught me. At that time the only accommodations for sightseers
were stage lines or private conveyance from Flagstaff and
Ash Fork, and, on arrival at the Canyon, the crude hotel-camps
at Hance's, Grand View, Bright Angel, and Bass's. The railway
north from Williams was being built. Everything was crude
and primitive.
Now the railway is completed and has become
an integral part of the great Santa Fe System, with at least
two trains a day each way carryin Pullman sleepers, chair
cars and coaches. At Bright Angel, where the railway deposits
its passengers at the rim of the Canyon, stands El Tovar Hotel,
erected by the railway company at a cost of over a quarter
of a million dollars, which is equipped and conducted by Fred
Harvey. Yet El Tovar is more like a country club than a hotel,
in many respects, and, to that extent, is better.
Hence while nothing in the canyon itself has
changed, and while my book, "In and Around the Grand Canyon,"
is still as helpful to the traveler and general reader as
ever, there has been a growing demand for a new book which
should give the information needed by the travele who comes
under the new conditions, telling him how he may best avail
himself of them. This book is written to meet this demand.
It therefore partakes more of the character of a guide book
than the former volume, so it has been decided to make it
lighter in weight and handier in form, so that it can be slipped
into the pocket or handbag, and thus used on the spot by those
who wish a ready reference handbook.
Used in connection with the earlier volume
or alone for it is complete in itself in all its details--it
cannot fail to give a cleare and fuller comprehension of this
"Waterway of the Gods,"--the most incomparable piece of rugged
scenery in the known world.
George Wharton James El Tovar, Grand Canyon,
September, 1909.
CONTENTS FOREWORD I. THE GRAND CANYON OF ARIZONA
II. ON THE GRAND CANYON RAILWAY TO EL TOVAR III. EL TOVAR
AND ITS EQUIPMENTS IV. THE GRAND CANYON AT EL TOVAR V. THREE
WAYS OF SPENDING ONE DAY AT THE CANYON VI. HOW TO SPEND TWO
TO FIVE DAYS AT EL TOVAR VII. HOW FULLY TO SEE AND KNOW THE
GRAND CANYON REGION VIII. FROM EL TOVAR DOWN THE BRIGHT ANGEL
TRAIL IX. TO GRAND VIEW AND DOWN THE GRAND VIEW TRAIL X. A
NEW "RIM" ROAD AND TRAIL INTO THE SCENIC HEART OF THE CANYON
XI. FROM EL TOVAR TO BASS CAMP AND DOWN THE BASS TRAIL XII.
ACROSS THE GRAND CANYON TO POINT SUBLIME XIII. HOW THE CANYON
WAS FORMED XIV. THE CANYON--ABOVE AND BELOW XV. THE HOPI HOUSE
XVI. VISITING INDIANS AT EL TOVAR XVII. THE NAVAHO AND HOPI
BLANKET WEAVERS XVIII. PUEBLO AND NAVAHO POTTERY AND SILVERWARE
XIX. THE HOPIS AND THEIR SNARE DANCE XX. AN HISTORIC TRAIL
ACROSS THE GRAND CANYON COUNTRY XXI. THE NAVAHO AND HIS DESERT
HOME XXII. FROM EL TOVAR TO THE HAVASUPAI INDIANS AND THEIR
WONDERFUL CATARACT CANYON HOMES XXIII. THE FIRST DISCOVERERS
AND INHABITANTS OF THE GRAND CANYON XXIV. EL TOVAR AND CARDENAS
AND THE MODERN DISCOVERY OF THE GRAND CANYON XXV. FRAY MARCOS
AND GARCES, AND THEIR CONNECTION WITH THE GRAND CANYON XXVI.
POWELL'S AND OTHER EXPLORATIONS OF THE GRAND CANYON XXVII.
INDIAN LEGENDS ABOUT THE GRAND CANYON XXVIII. THE COLORADO
RIVER FROM THE MOUNTAINS TO THE SEA XXIX. CLIMATE AND WEATHER
AT THE GRAND CANYON XXX. THE GRAND CANYON FOR PLEASURE, REST
AND RECUPERATION XXXI. THE STORY OF A BOAT XXXII. THE GRAND
CANYON A FOREST RESERVE, GAME PRESERVE AND NATIONAL MONUMENT
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