xii Note on the Author’s Itinerary 
Kanab. To the Kaibab Plateau, De Motte Park, and the rim 
of the Grand Canyon. To the bottom of the Grand Canyon 
via Shinumo and Kanab Canyons. To Kanab via Kanab 
Canyon. To the Uinkaret Mountains via Pipe Spring and 
the Wild Band Pockets. To the Grand Canyon at the foot of 
the Toroweap. 
1876—To St. George across the Uinkaret Plateau. To Las 
Vegas, Nevada, via Beaver Dam, Virgen River, the Muddy, 
and the desert. To St. George, by the desert and the old “St. 
Joe“ road across the Beaver Dam Mountains. To the rim 
of the Grand Canyon, via Hidden Spring, the Copper Mine, 
and Mt. Dellenbaugh. To a red paint cave on the side of the 
canyon, about twenty-five hundred feet down. To St. George 
via same route. To Ivanpah, California, via the old desert 
road, the Muddy, Las Vegas, and Good Spring. To St. 
George via same route. To Kanab via Short Creek and Pipe 
Spring. To the Uinkaret Mountains via Pipe Spring and 
Antelope Valley. Across to the Shewits Plateau and to Am¬ 
bush Waterpocket south of Mt. Dellenbaugh.^ To the bottom 
of the Grand Canyon on the east side of the Shewits Plateau. 
To St. George via Mt. Dellenbaugh and Hidden Spring. To 
Kanab via Berry Spring and Pipe Spring. To Salt Lake City 
via Upper Kanab and the Sevier Valley. 
1885—By rail to Ft. Wingate, New Mexico. By rail to 
Flagstaff. To Flagstaff via circuit of, and summit of, San 
Francisco Mountain and the Turkey Tanks. By rail to the 
Needles, California. By rail to Manuelito, New Mexico. To 
Ft. Defiance. By buckboard to Keam’s Canyon. To the 
East Mesa of the Moki. To Keam’s Canyon. By buckboard 
via Pueblo, Colorado, to Ft. Defiance. To the San Juan 
River at the “Four Corners,“ via Lukachukai Pass and the 
summit of the Carisso Mountains. To Ft. Defiance via the 
crest of the Tunicha Plateau. By buckboard to Keam’s and 
to the East Mesa of the Moki. To Mishongnuvi and back. 
^ This waterpocket, which is a very large one, has, so far as I am aware, never 
had an English name and I do not know the Amerind one. I have called it 
“Ambush” because it was the place where three of Powell’s men were shot by 
the Shewits in 1869. 
