Book/Printed Material Titan of chasms; the Grand Canyon of Arizona. The titan of chasms, by C.A. Higgins. The scientific explorer, by J.W. Powell. The greatest thing in the world, by Chas. F. Lummis. Information for tourists ... 190th thousand.
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Image 1 of Titan of chasms; the Grand Canyon of Arizona. The titan of chasms, by … mmmmi^iMSM-:0m^m:mmm Titan/Chasms- Contributor: Powell, John Wesley - Higgins, C. A. (Charles A.) - Lummis, Charles Fletcher
- Date: 1906
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Image 2 of Titan of chasms; the Grand Canyon of Arizona. The titan of chasms, by …- Contributor: Powell, John Wesley - Higgins, C. A. (Charles A.) - Lummis, Charles Fletcher
- Date: 1906
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Image 3 of Titan of chasms; the Grand Canyon of Arizona. The titan of chasms, by … Titan of Chasms The Grand Canyon of Arizona THE TITAN OF CHASMS By C. a. HIGGINS THE SCIENTIFIC EXPLORER By J. W. POWELL THE GREATEST THING IN THE WORLD By CHAS. F.…- Contributor: Powell, John Wesley - Higgins, C. A. (Charles A.) - Lummis, Charles Fletcher
- Date: 1906
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Image 4 of Titan of chasms; the Grand Canyon of Arizona. The titan of chasms, by … Gift Mrs. Wm. H. Beldwln HAY 12 1925- Contributor: Powell, John Wesley - Higgins, C. A. (Charles A.) - Lummis, Charles Fletcher
- Date: 1906
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Image 5 of Titan of chasms; the Grand Canyon of Arizona. The titan of chasms, by … THE TITAN OF CHASMS •BY C. A. HIGGINS Its His tort; The Colorado is one of the great rivers of North America. Formed in Southern Utah by the confluence of the Green…- Contributor: Powell, John Wesley - Higgins, C. A. (Charles A.) - Lummis, Charles Fletcher
- Date: 1906
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Image 6 of Titan of chasms; the Grand Canyon of Arizona. The titan of chasms, by … Virgin River in Nevada, where further navigation became impossible; then, returning to the Needles, he set off across the country toward the northeast. He reached the Big Canyon at Diamond Creek and…- Contributor: Powell, John Wesley - Higgins, C. A. (Charles A.) - Lummis, Charles Fletcher
- Date: 1906
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Image 7 of Titan of chasms; the Grand Canyon of Arizona. The titan of chasms, by … were best acquainted with the region, including the Indians, who maintained that boats could not possibly live in any one of a score of rapids and falls known to them, to say…- Contributor: Powell, John Wesley - Higgins, C. A. (Charles A.) - Lummis, Charles Fletcher
- Date: 1906
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Image 8 of Titan of chasms; the Grand Canyon of Arizona. The titan of chasms, by … Loo kills Acrosi Photo by W. H. Simpson. iiii LjiHiUI I It beautiful. It flashes instant communication of all that architecture and paint- ing and music for a thousand years have gropingly…- Contributor: Powell, John Wesley - Higgins, C. A. (Charles A.) - Lummis, Charles Fletcher
- Date: 1906
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Image 9 of Titan of chasms; the Grand Canyon of Arizona. The titan of chasms, by … down the trail you will g-ain an abiding sense of its real proportions. Yet, relatively, it is an unimportant detail of the scene. Were Vulcan to cast it bodily into the chasm…- Contributor: Powell, John Wesley - Higgins, C. A. (Charles A.) - Lummis, Charles Fletcher
- Date: 1906
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Image 10 of Titan of chasms; the Grand Canyon of Arizona. The titan of chasms, by … gloomily overhead, for we have dropped below the sandstone and have entered the archsan— a frowning black rock, streaked, veined, and swirled with vivid red and white, smoothed and polished by the…- Contributor: Powell, John Wesley - Higgins, C. A. (Charles A.) - Lummis, Charles Fletcher
- Date: 1906
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Image 11 of Titan of chasms; the Grand Canyon of Arizona. The titan of chasms, by … With so little labor may one come to the Colorado River in the heart of its most tremendous channel, and gaze upon a sight that heretofore has had fewer witnesses than have…- Contributor: Powell, John Wesley - Higgins, C. A. (Charles A.) - Lummis, Charles Fletcher
- Date: 1906
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Image 12 of Titan of chasms; the Grand Canyon of Arizona. The titan of chasms, by … Having returned to the plateau, it will be found that the descent into the canyon has bestowed a sense of intimacy that almost amounts to a mental grasp of the scene. The…- Contributor: Powell, John Wesley - Higgins, C. A. (Charles A.) - Lummis, Charles Fletcher
- Date: 1906
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Image 13 of Titan of chasms; the Grand Canyon of Arizona. The titan of chasms, by … THE SCIENTIFIC EXPLORER BY J. W. VOW ELL The IVes and Wheeler Expeditions In the fall of 1857 Lieutenant Ives, of the engineer corps of the army, ascended the Colorado River on…- Contributor: Powell, John Wesley - Higgins, C. A. (Charles A.) - Lummis, Charles Fletcher
- Date: 1906
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Image 14 of Titan of chasms; the Grand Canyon of Arizona. The titan of chasms, by … In the spring of 1870 I again started with three boats and descended the river to the Crossing of the Fathers, where I met a pack train and went out with a…- Contributor: Powell, John Wesley - Higgins, C. A. (Charles A.) - Lummis, Charles Fletcher
- Date: 1906
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Image 15 of Titan of chasms; the Grand Canyon of Arizona. The titan of chasms, by … abruptly on the west by the Grand Wash Cliffs, which is a high escarpment caused by a fault (as the geologist calls it), that is, the strata of sandstone and limestone are…- Contributor: Powell, John Wesley - Higgins, C. A. (Charles A.) - Lummis, Charles Fletcher
- Date: 1906
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Image 16 of Titan of chasms; the Grand Canyon of Arizona. The titan of chasms, by … Hisse// Povit and Co/or ado River. Copyright, 1899, by H. O Peabody. mountains and many treeless valleys. In the high forest there are beautiful glades with little stretches of meadow which are…- Contributor: Powell, John Wesley - Higgins, C. A. (Charles A.) - Lummis, Charles Fletcher
- Date: 1906
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Image 17 of Titan of chasms; the Grand Canyon of Arizona. The titan of chasms, by … springs and ponds of water deeply embosomed in the cliffs. From the southern escarpment of this plateau the great Colorado Plateau rises by a comparatively gentle acclivity, and Marble Canyon starts with…- Contributor: Powell, John Wesley - Higgins, C. A. (Charles A.) - Lummis, Charles Fletcher
- Date: 1906
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Image 18 of Titan of chasms; the Grand Canyon of Arizona. The titan of chasms, by … southwest the wall rises abruptly from the water to the summit of the plateau for about 6,000 feet, but across the river on the north and west mountains of gneiss and quartzites…- Contributor: Powell, John Wesley - Higgins, C. A. (Charles A.) - Lummis, Charles Fletcher
- Date: 1906
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Image 19 of Titan of chasms; the Grand Canyon of Arizona. The titan of chasms, by … a beautiful marble, as in ]\Iarble Canyon. As it appears along the Grand Canyon it is always stained a brilliant red, for immediately over it there are thin seams of iron, and…- Contributor: Powell, John Wesley - Higgins, C. A. (Charles A.) - Lummis, Charles Fletcher
- Date: 1906
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Image 20 of Titan of chasms; the Grand Canyon of Arizona. The titan of chasms, by … Yosemite, is but a naked wall, whether it be i,ooo or 5,000 feet high. Hun- dreds and thousands of feet mean nothing to the eye when they stand in a meaningless front.…- Contributor: Powell, John Wesley - Higgins, C. A. (Charles A.) - Lummis, Charles Fletcher
- Date: 1906
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Image 21 of Titan of chasms; the Grand Canyon of Arizona. The titan of chasms, by … the other structures in their wonderful colors are lifted. These continue for about -seventy miles, when the black gneiss below is lost, for the walls are dropped down by the West Kaibab…- Contributor: Powell, John Wesley - Higgins, C. A. (Charles A.) - Lummis, Charles Fletcher
- Date: 1906
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Image 22 of Titan of chasms; the Grand Canyon of Arizona. The titan of chasms, by …- Contributor: Powell, John Wesley - Higgins, C. A. (Charles A.) - Lummis, Charles Fletcher
- Date: 1906
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Image 23 of Titan of chasms; the Grand Canyon of Arizona. The titan of chasms, by … The third great southern bend is the Shiwits stretch. Thus there are three distinct portions of the Giand Canyon The Kaibab section, characterized more by its buttes and salients; the Kanab section,…- Contributor: Powell, John Wesley - Higgins, C. A. (Charles A.) - Lummis, Charles Fletcher
- Date: 1906
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Image 24 of Titan of chasms; the Grand Canyon of Arizona. The titan of chasms, by … THE CREA TEST THING IN THE WORLD •BY CHARLES F. LUMMIS The greatest thing in the world. That is a large phrase and an over- worked one, and hardened travelers do not…- Contributor: Powell, John Wesley - Higgins, C. A. (Charles A.) - Lummis, Charles Fletcher
- Date: 1906
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Image 25 of Titan of chasms; the Grand Canyon of Arizona. The titan of chasms, by … cut by scores of canyons hundreds of craters and thousands of square miles of lava beds, basalt, and cinders, and so much volcanic glass (obsidian) that it was the chief tool of…- Contributor: Powell, John Wesley - Higgins, C. A. (Charles A.) - Lummis, Charles Fletcher
- Date: 1906
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Image 26 of Titan of chasms; the Grand Canyon of Arizona. The titan of chasms, by … fceside which the shake at Charleston was mere paper-doll play for all the steepest gradients in the world (and Peru is the only place in the world where a river falls 17,000…- Contributor: Powell, John Wesley - Higgins, C. A. (Charles A.) - Lummis, Charles Fletcher
- Date: 1906
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Image 27 of Titan of chasms; the Grand Canyon of Arizona. The titan of chasms, by … feet And amid those enchanted towers and castles which the vastness of the scale leads you to call rocks, but which are in fact as big above the river-bed as the Rockies…- Contributor: Powell, John Wesley - Higgins, C. A. (Charles A.) - Lummis, Charles Fletcher
- Date: 1906
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Image 28 of Titan of chasms; the Grand Canyon of Arizona. The titan of chasms, by … INFORMATION FOR TOURISTS Preliminary There is only one way by which to directly reach the Grand Canyon of Arizona and that is via the Santa Fe (The Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe Rail-…- Contributor: Powell, John Wesley - Higgins, C. A. (Charles A.) - Lummis, Charles Fletcher
- Date: 1906
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Image 29 of Titan of chasms; the Grand Canyon of Arizona. The titan of chasms, by … and most impressive a scene that awakens the profoundest emotions; at Bass Camp, the most varied a scene of striking c(jntrasts in form and color. Each locaUty has its special charm. All…- Contributor: Powell, John Wesley - Higgins, C. A. (Charles A.) - Lummis, Charles Fletcher
- Date: 1906
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Image 30 of Titan of chasms; the Grand Canyon of Arizona. The titan of chasms, by … El Totiar Hotel. El ToVar Photo by Putnam Valentine. The most unique, most comfortable, and one of the costliest resort hotels in the Southwest has recently been built by the Santa Fe…- Contributor: Powell, John Wesley - Higgins, C. A. (Charles A.) - Lummis, Charles Fletcher
- Date: 1906
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Image 31 of Titan of chasms; the Grand Canyon of Arizona. The titan of chasms, by … in logs with huge stone fireplaces, and decorated with trophies of the chase; a pleasant spot where friends may meet informally. Main dining-room, 38x89 feet has log walls, a rough-board arched ceiling…- Contributor: Powell, John Wesley - Higgins, C. A. (Charles A.) - Lummis, Charles Fletcher
- Date: 1906
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Image 32 of Titan of chasms; the Grand Canyon of Arizona. The titan of chasms, by … stock and services of guide are moderate. A strong person, accustomed to mountain climbing, can make the round trip on foot in one day, by starting early enough; but the average traveler…- Contributor: Powell, John Wesley - Higgins, C. A. (Charles A.) - Lummis, Charles Fletcher
- Date: 1906
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Image 33 of Titan of chasms; the Grand Canyon of Arizona. The titan of chasms, by … Graftd Vze7o Hotel and Annex. Photo by H. Maude. where one may ride for two miles close along the edge, gives unequaled panoramic views of the depths below. Ruined cliff dwellings of…- Contributor: Powell, John Wesley - Higgins, C. A. (Charles A.) - Lummis, Charles Fletcher
- Date: 1906
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Image 34 of Titan of chasms; the Grand Canyon of Arizona. The titan of chasms, by … Flagstaff and Vicinity The town itself is an interesting place, prettily situated in the heart of the San Francisco uplift and surrounded by a pine forest. Its hotels, business houses, lumber mills,…- Contributor: Powell, John Wesley - Higgins, C. A. (Charles A.) - Lummis, Charles Fletcher
- Date: 1906
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Image 35 of Titan of chasms; the Grand Canyon of Arizona. The titan of chasms, by …- Contributor: Powell, John Wesley - Higgins, C. A. (Charles A.) - Lummis, Charles Fletcher
- Date: 1906
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Image 36 of Titan of chasms; the Grand Canyon of Arizona. The titan of chasms, by …- Contributor: Powell, John Wesley - Higgins, C. A. (Charles A.) - Lummis, Charles Fletcher
- Date: 1906