WITH ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS
BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1909
Copyright, 1906,
By Little, Brown, and Company.
All rights reserved.
Printers
S. J. Parkhill & Co., Boston, U. S. A.
TO
The Unfading Memory
OF
MAJOR JOHN WESLEY POWELL
THE GREAT EXPLORER
Whose name is inseparably linked for all time with the "Titan of Chasms," the entire length of which he penetrated, revealing its weird and mysterious grandeur; whose fidelity to scientific survey has signally advanced the progress of our country; whose wise foresight in advocating water supplies for arid lands, whose heroism amid hardships and whose persistence of energy and noble purpose forever endear his name to every American and to all who revere the loftiest achievements of science,
These pages are inscribed by
LILIAN WHITING.
"The sun set, but not his hope;