Mr. W. P. Rogers responded with a witty talk about old times, spoke of the fine cooperation of the Park Service and proposed a further reunion in another five years.
The next day, the writer retraced old trails in Zion Canyon and visited the museum and park headquarters where Naturalist Walker explained the developments taking place. Especially prominent was the great increase in the literature available to the public provided by the Natural History Association that had been organized by the writer in 1929. This included pictures, colored slides and publications, among which the works of Dr. H. E. Gregory on the geology of the region were outstanding.
FOOTNOTES
[2]J. W. Powell, Exploration of the Colorado River of the West (Washington, D.C., 1875), p. 111. Erroneously reported as September 12, 1870.
[3]William R. Palmer, “Pahute Indian Government and Laws,” Utah Historical Quarterly, Vol. II, No. 2, pp. 35-52.
[4]The tuna mentioned probably refers to cactus; and the maize and calabashes to corn and squash. The name, Parrusis, equivalent to Parrusits, undoubtedly referred to the Virgin River Indians. It simply means people living on the Par-roos River. Fifty years later, in 1826, Jedediah Strong Smith, found Indians on the Santa Clara Creek raising corn and pumpkins. Maurice Sullivan, The Travels of Jedediah Smith (Santa Ana, California, 1934), pp. 27-28.
[5]Cf. H. S. Auerbach, ed., “Father Escalante’s Journal,” in Utah Historical Quarterly, Vol. XI, pp. 85, 91.
[6]G. H. Heap, Central Route to the Pacific, Journal of the Expedition of E. H. Beale and G. H. Heap in 1853 (Washington, D.C., 1854), p. 99.
[7]Escalante, “Diario,” in Documents para la historia de Mexico (Mexico City), ser. 2, Vol. 1, p. 37.