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H-1302
A QUIET STRETCH NEAR END OF GRANITE GORGE,
GRAND CANYON, ARIZONA.
Copyright by Fred Harvey
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FRED
ARVEY
In the forty odd years since Explorer Powell
went through Grand Canyon, four parties
are known, to have dared the Colorado, but
only one-the last explorers, Charles Russell
and Edward Monett-actually covered all
the distance by water. It was in September,
they put the final stores aboard and started
down Green River, one of the tributaries of
the Colorado in Utah, and in January the
journey ended. Altogether, they travelled
752 miles along a water course, that for
centuries gone, had carved a channel through
the uplift more than a mile deep, and from
ten to thirteen miles wide.
