134 SADDLE AND CAMP 



John and the miners worked the ferry across I 

 held him by the nose. Once he lifted me clear 

 off my feet in an effort to rear and plunge, and 

 I thought for a moment both of us were going 

 overboard. But nothing of consequence hap- 

 pened, and at length we found ourselves and 

 outfit safely landed on the north bank of the 

 Colorado. 



Lee's Ferry, as previously stated, was estab- 

 lished by the Mormon elder John D. Lee a lit- 

 tle way above the junction of the Paria with the 

 Colorado River. Not far from the ferry, on 

 the north side of the Colorado, is a small stone 

 house, built and once occupied by Lee and a 

 mile or so beyond, where the Paria Canon 

 widens, is an alluvial flat, embracing thirty or 

 forty acres, which Lee cleared and irrigated. 

 He built himself a ranch house here where he 

 lived in hiding, when not at Moen Ave or 

 Tuba, and here he was found with his four- 

 teenth wife, Emeline Vaughn, by Major J. W. 

 Powell, when Major Powell made his second 

 exploratory journey down the Colorado. Major 

 Powell describes the meeting with Lee as fol- 

 lows: 



"In making a turn around the cliff, I was 

 surprised to see a little rude stone house, and 

 as I approached it a woman opened the door 



