INDEX 
A 
Abiquiu, 98 
Adams River, 120 
Agriculture on the Colorado, 66 
Aguaiauall, ii 
Ak, seed eaten by Pai Utes, 71 
Alargon, Hernando de, ii; discovery 
of Colorado, 14.; effort to go to Ci¬ 
bola, 23; farthest point, 25, 164 
Alta, California, 98 
Altitudes, appendix 
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, 7 
Ambush Water-pocket, 230 
Amerind, 4 
Annual rise of Colorado, 54 
Anza, Captain, 88 
Apaches, 22, 68, 82 
Appropriations by Congress, 380 
Aquarius Plateau, 52, 312 
Arapahos, 68 
Area of Colorado River Basin, 68 
Arellano, Don Tristan de, 28 
Arizona City, 170 
Ashley Falls, 249 
Ashley, General, 108, 200; descent of 
Green River, 108: name in Red Can¬ 
yon, 112, 195, 250 
Asquit, Captain, 296 
Assumpcion, Juan de la, 8 
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Rail¬ 
way, 368 
Atlantic and Pacific Railway, 343 
Aubrey Cliffs, 90 
Awatuwi, 94 
B 
Bac, San Xavier del, 87 
Backward drainage, 49 
Bagley, boatbuilder, 236 
Baker, White’s companion, 175, 201 
Balance of precipitation, 46 
Bandolier, A. F., 7 
Barraneche, Padre, 104 
Barrel cactus, 71 
Bartlett, John R., 148 
Base line measured, 306 
Beale, E. F., 152 
Beaman, E. O,, 240, 243 
Bear River, 202 
Beaver, 74, 107, 266 
Beaver Dam Mountains, 53 
Beaver packs, 107 
Beckwourth, James P., 108 
Beehive Point, 248 
Beginning of the canyons, 65 
Bell, William A., 175 
Benavides, 94 
Berry Spring, 309 
Bicuner mission, 104 
Big Canyon, 167, 169, 189 
Bill Williams Fork, 78, 116, 165 
Bishop, F. M., 240 
Bison, 23, 74; trails, 108 
Bitter-root River, 67 
Black Canyon, 27, 154, 174; derivation 
of name, 167 
Black’s Fork, 139, 244 
Boats, Brown’s expedition, 347; Powell, 
first expedition, T90; second, 235; 
Stanton’s, 357; Wheeler’s, 296; best 
model, 236; Brown’s crews, 349; 
Powell’s, 191, 239 ; Stanton’s, 359 ; 
Wheeler’s, 296, 303 
Boils, 337, 339 
Bonito Bend, 276 
Bonnemort, 290 
Bonneville, 66, 128 
Book Plateau, 100 
Boulder Canyon, 297 
Boulders rolling, 279 
Bradley, G. Y., 191; overboard, 207 
Bridger, Fort, 139; James, 139, 108 
Brigham Young to Salt Lake, 139 
Bright Angel Creek, 222, 334, 363 
391 
