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knew it, Rock House Spring, and then the spring where the 
House Rock was, or House Rock Spring. From this came 
House Rock Valley, and the name was soon a fixture, and 
went on our maps. And thus easily are names established in 
a new country. All around were evidences of former occupa¬ 
tion by the Puebloans, and I became greatly interested in ex¬ 
amining the locality. At length, we were ordered across the 
Kaibab to the vicinity of Kanab, and I shall never fail to see 
distinctly the wonderful view from the summit we had of the 
bewildering cliff-land leading away northward to the Pink 
Cliffs. The lines of cliffs rose up like some giant stairway, 
while to the south-eastward the apparently level plain was 
separated by the dark line of Marble Canyon. On top of the 
plateau, which was covered with a fine growth of tall pines, 
we came about camping time to a shallow, open valley, where 
we decided to stay for the night. As it was on the top of the 
mountain Bishop recorded it in his notes as Summit Valley, 
and so it ever afterward remained. There was no spring, but 
a thin layer of snow eked out the water we had brought in kegs 
on the packs, and we and the animals were comfortable enough. 
The trail had not been travelled often, and was in places very 
dim, but we succeeded in following it without delay. The 
Kaibab, still frequently called the Buckskin Mountain, must 
have received this first name from its resemblance to a buck¬ 
skin stretched out on the ground. The similarity is quite 
apparent in the relief map opposite page 41. As it was the 
home of the Kaibab band of Pai Utes, Powell decided to re¬ 
name it after them. We arrived within eight miles of Kanab, 
where we made a headquarters camp at a fine spring, and trips 
from here and from a camp made later nearer Kanab were 
extended into the surrounding country. The Mormons had a 
year or two before come out from the St. George direction and 
established this new settlement of Kanab, composed then of a 
stockaded square of log houses and some few neat adobe houses 
outside; about fifty in all. The settlement was growing strong 
enough to scatter itself somewhat about the site marked off for 
the future town. One of the first things the Mormons always 
did in establishing a new settlement was to plant fruit and 
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