A River Entrapped—Acquaintance not Desired—Ives Explores the
Lower Reaches—Powell the Conqueror—Reason for a Second
Descent—Congressional Appropriation—Preparation—The Three
Boats—The Mighty Wilderness—Ready for the Start
Into the Wilderness—The Order of Sailing—Tobacco for the
Indians Comes Handy—A Lone Fisherman and Some Trappers—Jack
Catches Strange Fish—The Snow-clad Uintas in View—A Larder
Full of Venison—Entrance into Flaming Gorge
The First Rapid—Horseshoe and Kingfisher Canyons—A Rough
Entrance into Red Canyon—Capsize of the Nell—The Grave of
a Bold Navigator—Discovery of a White Man's Camp—Good-bye to
Frank—At the Gate of Lodore
Locked in the Chasm of Lodore—Rapids with Railway Speed—A
Treacherous Approach to Falls of Disaster—Numerous Loadings
and Unloadings—Over the Rocks with Cargoes—Library Increased
by Putnam's Magazine—Triplet Falls and Hell's Half
Mile—Fire in Camp—Exit from Turmoil to Peace
A Remarkable Echo—Up the Canyon of the Yampa—Steward and
Clem Try a Moonlight Swim—Whirlpool Canyon and Mountain
Sheep—A Grand Fourth-of-July Dinner—A Rainbow-Coloured
Valley—The Major Proceeds in Advance—A Split Mountain with
Rapids a Plenty—Enter a Big Valley at Last
A Lookout for Redskins—The River a Sluggard—A
Gunshot!—Someone Comes!—The Tale of a Mysterious Light—How,
How! from Douglas Boy—At the Mouth of the Uinta—A Tramp to
Goblin City and a Trip down White River on a Raft—A
Waggon-load of Supplies from Salt Lake by Way of Uinta
Agency—The Major Goes Out to Find a Way In
On to Battle—A Concert Repertory—Good-bye to Douglas
Boy—The Busy, Busy Beaver—In the Embrace of the Rocks Once
More—A Relic of the Cliff-Dwellers—Low Water and Hard
Work—A Canyon of Desolation—Log-cabin Cliff—Rapids and
Rapids and Rapids—A Horse, whose Horse?—Through Gray Canyon
to the Rendezvous
Return of the Major—Some Mormon Friends—No Rations at the
Elusive Dirty Devil—Captain Gunnison's Crossing—An All-night
Vigil for Cap. and Clem—The Land of a Thousand Cascades—A
Bend Like a Bow-knot and a Canyon Labyrinthian—Cleaving an
Unknown World—Signs of the Oldest Inhabitant—Through the
Canyon of Stillwater to the Jaws of the Colorado
A Wonderland of Crags and Pinnacles—Poverty Rations—Fast and
Furious Plunging Waters—Boulders Boom along the
Bottom—Chilly Days and Shivering—A Wild Tumultuous Chasm—A
Bad Passage by Twilight and a Tornado With a Picture
Moonrise—Out of One Canyon into Another—At the Mouth of the
Dirty Devil at Last
The Cañonita Left Behind—Shinumo Ruins—Troublesome Ledges
in the River—Alcoves and Amphitheatres—The Mouth of the San
Juan—Starvation Days and a Lookout for Rations—El Vado de
Los Padres—White Men Again—Given up for Lost—Navajo
Visitors—Peaks with a Great Echo—At the Mouth of the Paria
More Navajos Arrive with Old Jacob—The Lost Pack-train and a
Famished Guide—From Boat to Broncho—On to Kanab—Winter
Arrives—Wolf Neighbours too Intimate—Preparing for Geodetic
Work—Over the Kaibab to Eight-mile Spring—A Frontier
Town—Camp below Kanab—A Mormon Christmas Dance
Reconnoitring and Triangulating—A Pai Ute New Year's
Dance—The Major Goes to Salt Lake—Snowy Days on the
Kaibab—At Pipe Spring—Gold Hunters to the Colorado—Visits
to the Uinkaret County—Craters and Lava—Finding the
Hurricane Ledge—An Interview with a Cougar—Back to Kanab
Off for the Unknown Country—A Lonely Grave—Climbing a
Hog-back to a Green Grassy Valley—Surprising a Ute
Camp—Towich-a-tick-a-boo—Following a Blind Trail—The
Unknown Mountains Become Known—Down a Deep Canyon—To the
Paria with the Cañonita—John D. Lee and Lonely Dell
A Company of Seven—The Nellie Powell Abandoned—Into Marble
Canyon—Vasey's Paradise—A Furious Descent to the Little
Colorado—A Mighty Fall in the Dismal Granite Gorge—Caught in
a Trap—Upside Down—A Deep Plunge and a Predicament—At the
Mouth of the Kanab
A New Departure—Farewell to the Boats—Out to the World
Through Kanab Canyon—A Midnight Ride—At the Innupin
Picavu—Prof. Reconnoitres the Shewits Country—Winter
Quarters in Kanab—Making the Preliminary Map—Another New
Year—Across a High Divide in a Snow-storm—Down the Sevier in
Winter—The Last Summons
