CHAPTER XI 



POPLAR TREES AND MORMON BEARDS 



KANAB village lies in the center of a 

 small area irrigated by the waters of 

 Kanab Creek, which is dammed to make 

 a reservoir where the mountains above the set- 

 tlement close in to form the upper canon. 

 Stretching out below Kanab on either side of 

 the creek, or wash, as it is locally called, is a 

 desert area over which cattle roam and some- 

 how subsist and thrive upon exceedingly scant 

 pasturage. On the east of the creek the desert 

 reaches down to the forest covered region of 

 the Buckskin or Kaibab Plateau, the game 

 region, where jaguar, deer, and bear are plenti- 

 ful, while to the west of the creek lies the Ka- 

 nab Plateau. Not far below Kanab the creek 

 passes through a gorge which soon grows into 

 a mighty and picturesque canon, with walls of 



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