Grand Cañon, Colorado River, near Paria Creek, looking west

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Title:
Grand Cañon, Colorado River, near Paria Creek, looking west
Description:
Descriptive legend of view no. 5: At the mouth of Paria Creek the walls of the Colorado Cañon are but a few hundred feet in height, rising half way in a talus of loose and broken rock, which lies at the natural slope of earth and is crowned by a vertical escarpment of sandstone striped with colors of orange and red. Looking down stream from this place, as in the view at hand, the surface of the country rises before you with a grade which depends upon the dip of the strata, whose rate of ascent is five times as great as the river's fall, so that the Cañon rapidly deepens, until, at the opening of the Colorado Chiquito, 65 miles below, where the Grand Cañon properly begins, the walls have gained an altitude of nearly 4,000 feet. At the mouth of the Paria is the well-known Navajo Crossing of the Colorado, being one of the two or three points at which the bed of this Cañon is approachable from both sides. At this ferry the Navajo Indians pass over when on their trips to the Mormon settlements of Utah, to which they repair for trading purposes, bartering the blankets of their manufacture for horses, sheep, and other live stock. Returning, the animals are forces to swim the current, and the Indians are then rowed across by a Mormon woman who lives with her children in this solitary place, and, with their aid, conducts this ferry and gains a livelihood from the Indian commodities which she receives as ferriage. This woman is the sixth wife of the notoriously well-known Mormon Bishop John D. Lee.
Photographer:
Bell, William, 1830-1910
Photographer:
O'Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882
Publisher:
United States. War Department. Corps of Engineers
Date:
[1872] (created)
[1876] (issued)
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
Albumen prints
Expedition photographs
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
Photographs of the American West
Series:
Photographs From Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian > Photographs from geographical explorations and surveys west of the 100th meridian, expeditions of 1871, 1872, 1873, and 1874, with descriptive text - under command of Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, Corps of Engrs
Places:
Arizona > Grand Canyon (area)
Colorado River
Extent:
1 photographic print : albumen ; image 28 x 21 cm., on mount 51 x 41 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/cf95jc28m
Terms of Use:
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Publisher:
[Washington, D.C.] : War Dept., Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army
Language:
English
Notes:
Title from item.
On item: War Department, Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army. Geographical Explorations and Surveys. West of the 100th Meridian. Expedition of 1872. Under Command of Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, Corps of Engrs.
Plate number: No. 5
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Accession #:
PAW4.060
Call #:
Cab.78.15.4 (no longer used)