They were near the canyon now, and a heavy murmur, growing in intensity, pulsed in the quiet air.
Across the canyon was built a deflecting dam of solid masonry.
Just as the trail climbed to the edge of the canyon it seemed to end against a smooth wall of granite.
The dam was already filled to the brim, and the full volume of the Sangre de Cristo was sweeping through the weir and plunging into the canyon below.
The Sangre de Cristo cut through the canyon and drained the lake.
A remarkable story of cattle ranges of Arizona, the great desert, and the grand canyon of the Colorado river.
As he rode through the canyon he noted the silence, the oily threads of water sliding between the boulders; these facts made suspicion certainty.
He seized Helen's hand, crushing it in his fierce grasp, as he bent forward toward the canyon of the Sangre de Cristo.
We reach a canyon whose sides at its mouth are clothed with pines and aspens; the rocks have changed from the granite to red sandstone and great mountains made up of boulders and red clay.
From our camping-place for thirty and odd miles to the canyonof the South Fork is a series of riffles, deep swirls under bushy banks, pools and comparatively still reaches.
As it was after nine o'clock, the Major said he would go up the canyon a little way and catch a few trout.
Through the latter half of this section of the valley the stream flows in a narrow canyon and the fall is steep.
A descent by ropes to the bottom of the canyon at 'Entrance No.
We know that he never got away, we had the canyon blocked with a cork in the neck of the bottle.
Any minute now we ought to glimpse the low country through this canyon that we've been following over the ridge.
Somehow, I seem to have a notion that there's a sort of crevice in the canyonwall close by.
Presently they started up the canyon toward the spot where Jimmy still declared he believed he had seen an object move, which must be game of some sort.
Remembering that the canyon had narrowed there, like the neck of a bottle, Ned turned suddenly on his heels.
Undoubtedly those who were driving them out of the feeding ground knew that this was the only way by means of which the herd could be started, because further up the coulie merged into a blind canyon that must have proven a trap.
The Flying Arrow cowboy was almost at the mouth of the canyon when a thunder of flying hoofs stopped him.
The man trapped in the canyon had joined in the fight again and the riflemen were caught between two fires, with Slim on the one side and the unknown on the other.
His cayuse shot down, he had attempted to escape, only to find himself in a box-like canyon with walls too steep to scale.
Bob knew that this was a very short canyon and that there were numerous large rocks and crevices at the opposite end.
Suddenly Bob saw a chance and, drawing the reins of his dromedary, he dashed away at full speed for a short canyon between the rocks.
The canyon was near now, but a hurried look over his shoulder told Bob that the Arabs were near also.
The fuel of the city was formerly wholly lignite coal, which comes from the foothills; but the extension of the railway to Canyon City, El Moro and the Gunnison, have made the harder and less sulphurous coals accessible and cheap.
The building of the railway, for the first mile north of Rockwood, exceeded in its daring any work even in the famous Grand Canyon of the Arkansas.
Another day we made an excursion up into the canyon of the Little Cottonwood to Alta--a mining town known all round the world.
The canyon here becomes very narrow and tortuous, with picturesque defiles opening here and there and conducting tiny streams, swelled in spring to noisy torrents.
This deserted canyon was called by the Utes Unaweep (Red Rock), describing the scenery it presents.
The prophecy has been verified, for the Denver and Rio Grande has already pushed its southwestern extension through the Canyonof the Animas, reaching Silverton in July, 1882.
The canyon is compressed into a narrow fissure among mountains of supreme height, whose fronts are in unbroken shadow.
Opposite Currecanti Needle and canyon stand some very remarkable rocks, underneath the greatest of which the train passes.
This canyon is very tortuous, and many lateral canyons enter on either side.
From the northwest comes the Green, in a narrow, winding gorge; from the northeast the Grand, hidden in a canyon that seems bottomless.
On the first day we hauled half of our outfit to Canyon City, and on the second we transferred the balance.
Another week had gone and we were still on the trail, between the head of the canyon and the summit of the Pass.
About midway in the canyon is a huge basin, like the old crater of a volcano, sloping upwards to the pine-fringed skyline.
On one side of the canyonthey had established a camp.
You saw them in the canyon at the trail top, staggering in the wind that seemed to blow every way at once.
At the canyon head was a large camp, and there, very much in evidence, the gambling fraternity.
They had told us of the canyon and of the rapids, and as we pulled at the oars and battled with the mosquitoes, we wondered when the danger was coming, how we would fare through it when it came.
The only entrance into this canyon is through this gate, and the canyonitself contains the only wood within fifteen miles of the city.
Echo Canyon is a narrow pass, about eighteen miles in length, and commands the entrance to Salt Lake Valley from the east.
The Mormons had fortified this canyonat several points.
When it was arranged with the Mormon officer in command of my escort that I should pass through Echo Canyon in the night, I inferred that it was with the object of concealing the barricades and other defences.
The Echo Canyon boys were also there, to see the fun.
The following is the Mormon account of the entree of Governor Cumming into the Valley of Salt Lake, and may go to explain to him why the journey was made through Echo Canyon in the night.
The trail continued to lead through the short bushes that covered the plain just before entering the pass, and then turned off sharply to the right, where it led to an abrupt little canyon or gully about ten feet deep.
There is some mysterious power about the Canyon that seems to make it impossible for a person to face the gorge and throw himself into it.
When morning came arrangements were made with Rangers West and Peck to pack the body out of the Canyon if it should be so ordered.
This place is about five hundred yards west of the bridge in an alcove in the Archaean Rock which forms the Canyon wall.
Anyone who is interested in the study of human nature should set up shop on the Rim of the Grand Canyon and watch the world go by.
The night was not very cold, rather balmy than otherwise, and the descent into the Canyon was made as quickly as possible, the factor of safety being considered.
A young man, immensely wealthy, brought his fiancée to the Canyon for a day's outing.
When I had been at the Canyon a few days the young people gave a party for me.
Especially was the Grand Canyon lacking in living quarters.
Perhaps a hundred people got on the train leaving the Canyon one snowy zero night.
How many of you have seen the incomparable painting of the Grand Canyon hanging in the Capitol at Washington?
Mr. Hough had just sold his masterpiece, The Covered Wagon, to the Saturday Evening Post, and was planning to write a Canyon story.
The Chief decided to drive out to Desert View the afternoon following our Canyon experience, and he said I could go if I liked; he said he couldn't promise any excitement, but the lupine was beautiful in Long Jim Canyon, and I might enjoy it.
Whether the Canyon disorganized their judgment or whether they were equally silly at home I cannot tell, but certainly the two New England school teachers who tried horseback-riding for the first time, well--!
They could not bear to leave the Canyon until they knew he was not lying injured and suffering on a ledge somewhere.
He told me to wire the doctor at Williams and tell him he was not needed; also to see that a message was sent to the wife and children of the dead man telling them he would have to be buried in the Canyon where he was killed.
The crescent terraces, visible through a shallow canyonof buildings to the left, were a blaze of colored lights with the dark figures of people thronging them.
The canyon dry at one place near the lower edge of the city, the water all electrified, resolved into piped hydrogen and oxygen.
In another place, at the bottom of a canyon roared a surging torrent of river.
I took a trip through theCanyon country, Mr. President.
He knew that her work would keep her in the Grand Canyon country.
And while the thought of going back to the Grand Canyon has intrigued me for twenty-two years, I must go in my own way and in my own time.
He paused at the point where the canyongave place to the desert.
I have a group mining for me in the Grand Canyon and another group locating oil fields for me in Texas.
And you are as unconscious of my passion for you, of the rending agony of my giving you up as the Canyon is of the travail of Milton and his little group.
The visitor to El Tovar, the rim hotel of the Grand Canyon receives some curious impressions of our governmental prerogatives.
Diana, we were so puny, so insignificant, so stupid, and the Canyon was so colossal and so diabolically quick and clever!
They ate lunch in a little canyon opening north and south.
After I came back from the Grand Canyon with John Seaton, I began to fight against it.
Then, of a sudden, Spoons stopped in his tracks, and as suddenly a little avalanche of snow shot down the canyon wall, catching the mule's forelegs.
It was an ideal night for traveling, cool but invigorating, with the breath of mountain and canyon heavy on the still evening air.
A few minutes later the man who had been left down in the canyoncame jogging up to them, giving a signal whistle while still some distance to the rear.
After a time Mr. Fairweather’s light disappeared and Hippy was left in the somber canyon to pass the time as best he might.
Look to your right and you will observe that the second canyon appears to merge into the one immediately in our foreground, so we will try to get down the mountain and work our way toward the point of intersection.
The water in its nearly three hundred feet fall from the top of the spillway roared into Salt River Canyon, a miniature Niagara, sending up clouds of rainbow spray, the thunder of its fall echoing down the canyon for miles.
No fire burned in the camp, nor could the girls see the tents, which was not surprising, for the night in the valley was almost as dark as in the mountaincanyon that they had just left.
Darkness had enveloped mountain and canyon by the time the evening meal was finished.
The lieutenant and I’ll take two ponies and lead ’em until we pick up the trail, then we’ll ride as far up the canyon as we can an’ walk the rest of the way.
You don’t mean that you’re going to sit down and leave Grace and Emma in that terrible canyon all night?
Mr. Fairweather, is there a possibility of getting to the bottom of the canyon to salvage our clothing?
All through the luncheon that was eaten in an ancient community house, with the magnificent view of mountain and canyon spread out before them, General Gordon was regarding Grace perplexedly.
At several such canyonintersections Grace herself became confused, but careful examination of a few yards of her own trail to the rear soon set her straight.
It seems to me that the second canyon over there should lead us somewhere near our camp.
The other girls, following the luncheon, amused themselves with lying flat on their backs, gazing up the sheer walls of the canyon at the ribbon of blue sky lined out by the tops of the canyon walls.
The bottom of the canyon was in deep shadow when the girls finally reached it, though it was still daylight on the mountain top.
It swung like the writhings of a snake, through cuts and tunnels, hugging the canyon walls, twisting this way and that.
A trail led along the canyon from the spring, westward.
Even the Indians who had been camping in the remote canyon where Felicia had visited them had found good hunting in some still more remote section and never had appeared in the camp.
Roger described his meeting with the squaws, and Dick added, "The whole outfit is camping on a canyon the other side of the range.
Snake Peak was now just across the canyon and he could see clearly the gray white of the tailing dump that marked the mine.
With ears lapped forward the burro tottered to the canyon edge and began feebly to pick his way downward.
It was a good two miles of tooth and nail climbing and the canyon was filled with afternoon shadows when Roger reached the foot-wall of the east range.
The canyon was really a part of the desert floor and was deep with sand.
The morning had been breathless but as he rose, a little hot gust of air blew up from the canyon below.
He took extraordinarily narrow chances with the steepness of grade but in spite of the Sun Planters' prophecies they did not lose either horses or wagon down canyon or mountain side.
At noon, he ate and drank something, then lay down in the shade of a canyon to sleep for an hour or so, with Peter standing like a little gray bodyguard beside him.
They began work in the range back of the ranch, taking advantage of draw and canyon whenever possible, even when this demanded a long detour.
It was late in the afternoon, on a detour across a wide canyon that they came upon the end of the Von Minden drama.
Then once more it dropped gradually and gracefully into the canyon where the little spring mirrored the blue of the Arizona sky.
The boys went to the western extremity of the canyon and looked down an almost perpendicular wall, nearly a thousand feet in height, to the surging waters of the Pacific ocean.
I suppose that’s Two Sisters canyon that we just crossed.
If he touches the boys, I’ll duck him into the first canyon we come to.
The boys walked down to the end of the canyon and looked almost straight below into the tumbling surf of the Pacific ocean.
They found hiding-places, at last, at the edge of the canyon which lay between the two peaks.
Jimmie and Carl hastened to make themselves acquainted with the situation in the canyon by means of their electric searchlights.
Besides offering a comparatively safe hiding-place for the machines, the canyon also seemed to offer protection from the weather for the boys.
The disappearance of both Jimmie and Kit led him to believe that whoever had occupied the canyon at the time of his arrival—if any one had—had represented a hostile interest.
After a long consultation, it was decided to take the machines out of the canyon that night.
Ben observed, “he either saw and followed us, or he knows where Two Sisters canyonis and is heading for it.
Why, you boy,” Carl explained, “it means that this busted aviator was headed for a canyonin the mountains known as the Two Sisters.
The only solution of the mystery which came to his mind lay in the recognition of the fact that the canyon had been occupied by some one—perhaps by the murderers themselves—at the moment of his entrance.
We ought to go down to the end of the canyon and see if there are any steamers gathering about that beacon light.
Beneath them opened an immense canyon, stupendous even in that land of canyons,--the great canyon of the Columbia.
Then down from the great canyon of the Columbia, from the heart of the Cascade Range, broke a mighty thundering sound, as if half a mountain had fallen.
Down a canyon they swept in pursuit and passed from the ken of the watchers at the camp, the black horse still in the van.
Beneath them, the river plunged over a long low precipice with a roar that filled the canyon for miles.
It now appeared an independent elevation, surrounded on three sides by gorges and watercourses, so narrow as to be overlooked from the principal mountain range, with which it was connected by a long canyon that led to the ridge.
No rustle in the wayside "brush," nor echo from the rocky canyon below, betrayed a sound of their flight.
The password was again given in silence, and again after a little delay the coach proceeded down the canyon through the darkness.
Some experiences in Silver Creek and Parley's Canyon will be mentioned in connection with another trip through these ranges of mountains.
It was after dusk, when with a fresh team we were whirling down the steep curves of Silver Creek Canyon with horses on a full run, urged on by the Jehu on the box.
As the grade from the head of Parley's Canyon to the city was steadily downward, this could be accomplished without the service of the missing cattle, but I was to remain in the mountains and recover them, if possible.
After a little thought one of the women stated that about a mile down the canyon there lived an old fellow, at what was known as the toll gate.
Before retracing our steps up the canyon we gave a short whoop, which as before was echoed back from the other side.
When the coach rolled on from the mouth of the canyonand left us behind, we talked the matter over together and agreed that the tactics had worked admirably.
Four times in Echo Canyon the coach was stopped by mounted guards.
Under favorable conditions Echo Canyon is a charming ravine.
As we looked westward down the canyon we noticed a little grove of quaking aspen trees which had sent some of their slender branches above the lines of the cliffs beyond, so that they were silhouetted against the evening sky.
The canyon is luxuriantly covered in places with a large variety of wild flowers.
At Loveland the road turns westward and soon plunges into the precipitous canyon of the Thompson River, where it follows the turns of the dashing stream, walled in by towering cliffs.
Chief Quail lives over in the Canyon de Chelly neighborhood.
Why don't we put up at the Canyon de Chelly camp so I can show Sandy where his great-uncle fit the Navajos?
Sandy marveled as he stared up at towering cliffs that rose almost straight up from the grass-covered canyon floor.
At the same moment, thunder rolled deafeningly above their heads, lightning danced about the canyon walls like angry spirits, and the rain began coming down in bucketfuls.
From right to left they're Monument Canyon, theCanyon de Chelly proper, Black Rock, and the famous Canyon del Muerto, which means Death Canyon.
It was midafternoon and the sticky heat was stifling when they reached the great box canyon where the Hopis were supposed to be living.
See that big blue-and-white picture of a cow drawn on the canyon wall over the cliff dwelling to your left?
When Ralph spoke to her in the basic Shoshonean language, however, she pursed her lips and pointed up the canyonwith them.
Around a sharp bend in the canyon they came at last to a heap of sandstone ruins.
Then they had to go all the way back to Chinle for the jeep, but not before Chief Quail had made a detour to toss a piece of yellow carnotite ore on the wishing pile which stood near the entrance to Canyon de Chelly.
He explained the happy ending to the blockade of the Navajos in the Canyon de Chelly, and wound up by telling how Carson had left his deathbed to go to Washington and make one more plea for government help for "his Indians.
Then they set out for the wild Dot Klish Canyon area, to the northwest of Chinle, where the Navajo thought Chief Ponytooth and his wife were "squatting," as he put it.
The sun was sinking in golden glory behind thousand-foot-high red sandstone buttes when they drove up to the Thunderbird guest ranch at the entrance of the Canyon de Chelly National Monument area.
As he ran madly toward the canyon wall with the idea of climbing out of reach of the flash flood, Sandy slipped on a bank of wet clay and fell headlong.
In the rapidly gathering darkness the canyon walls echoed with his shouts.
Farther south was Pueblo, on the Arkansas, and a line of little settlements working up the valley, by Canyon City to Oro, where Leadville now stands.
Sibley, now caught between Canby advancing from Fort Craig and Chivington coming through Apache Canyon from Fort Union, evacuated Santa Fe on April 7, falling back to Albuquerque.
From Pueblo it contested successfully with this rival for the grand canyon of the Arkansas, and built up that valley through the Gunnison country and across the old Ute reserve, to Grand Junction.
The next day we continue up the valley five miles to Parowan and four miles farther to Paragonah, then, being close under the mountains, we finally turn east again through Red Creek Canyon toward Bear Valley.
From here we had a grand view, which reminded me somewhat of the view at the Grand Canyonin miniature.
The walls of the canyon towered up nearly perpendicular on each side and, although the sun was still three hours high, it was twilight where we were.
This water hole was down in a small canyon and we had hard work getting at it and digging a basin from which we could dip up a pail of water at a time, but finally we got what we needed.
Chapter VIII Salina Canyon Leaving town we drove about three miles to the mouth of Salina Canyon, and put in about two and a half hours at noon so that the horses might be in good shape for the climb.
We get out of thecanyon and the valley widens from three to five miles and we soon reach the town of Circleville, so called on account of the circular valley.
At this point in the canyon we saw a section house and climbed up to see if they had any water.
On our way down this morning the trail skirted the side of the canyon and we could catch a glimpse now and then of the river, looking like a tiny brook, far down below.
We began going down grade rapidly and finally the road, which was especially good, turned abruptly down into a canyon and turned and twisted among the trees and bushes in a marvellous manner.
We came off the steep place, leaving the canyon beneath us, and took to horseback.
He unsaddled the weary mare by Sunk Creek, where the canyon begins, letting her drag a rope and find pasture and water, while he, lighting no fire to betray him, crouched close under a tree till the light came.
The heat went out of the air, and in the canyon the violet light began to show.
The long fences of Judge Henry's home ranch began upon Sunk Creek soon after that stream emerged from its canyon through the Bow Leg.
I had never seen him look as he did now, not even in Pitchstone Canyon when we came upon the bodies of Hank and his wife.
We emerged from a narrow canyon suddenly upon five hundred cattle and some cow-boys branding calves by a fire in a corral.
In the afternoon on many days of the summer which I spent at the Sunk Creek Ranch I would go shooting, or ride up toward the entrance of the canyon and watch the men working on the irrigation ditches.
We'll need to travel right smart to get through the canyon to-night," he said.
