"Now, when the wicked Manitou came along he tried to enter the cañon too, but he had to stop, because down in the depths of the mountain were veins of gold and silver which he could not cross.

But they wander far, crossing the cañons from grove to grove, and draw exceedingly angular and complicated courses.

But she soon saw it was not to look at her; his glance passed down the long cañon toward the spot where they had seen the smudge of smoke.

The Big Mountain, which the road crosses twenty miles from Salt Lake City, was covered so deep with snow, that the party was obliged to follow the cañons of the Weber River into the Valley.

As it is impossible to explore the entire cañon, we are unable to tell whether the course of the river through it is broken by other and larger cataracts than the two we have seen, or whether its continuous descent alone has produced the enormous depth to which it has attained.

In his first extended description of the cañon, he stated that "every river entering it has cut another cañon; every lateral creek has also cut another cañon; every brook runs in a cañon; every rill born of a shower and living only in the showers, has cut for itself a cañon; so that the whole upper portion of the basin of the Colorado is traversed by a labyrinth of these deep gorges.

Long before Bronson ventured to return to his mountain camp, Lorry was riding the hill trails again as spring loosened the upland snows and filled the cañons and arroyos with a red turbulence of waters bearing driftwood and dead leaves.

Some of the boys climbed the mountain on the north but found no springs: Coming down a cañon they found some rain water in a basin in the rocks and all took a good drink.

So we turned up a cañon leading toward the mountain and had a pretty heavy up grade and a rough bed for a road.

He pointed out to us the exact cañon we were to enter when we reached the hills; and said after three "sleeps" we would find an Indian camp on top of the mountain.

After skirting the plain for several miles, they reëntered the cañon, drifted two hours or more between its solemn walls, and then came out upon a wide sweep of open country.

As it was, he felt compelled to retire up the cañon until he could recover his gravity.

In describing the cañon, that profusely illustrated work says that the figures quoted "do not readily strike a responsive chord in the human mind, for the simple reason that they involve something utterly different from anything that more than 99 per cent.

They had instructions to examine the cañon and, if necessary, to carry a part of the outfit past itin any case, enough to support the party back to the coast should accident necessitate such procedure.

This would be a hard rocky road on its course leading up a small rocky cañon, hard on the feet of the oxen, so they had to be constantly urged on, as they seemed very tender footed.

In the morning I started down the cañon which descended rapidly and had a bed of sharp, volcanic, broken rock.

Presently a faint pallor overspread the cañon till it lay like a ghostly sea dotted with strange islands of brush and rock; islands that seemed to waver and shift in a sort of vague restlessness, as though trying to evade the ever-brightening tide of moonlight that burned away their shrouds of dusk and fixed them in still, tangible shapes upon the cañon floor.

Having plenty of bandages and medicine, we made Nims as comfortable as possible till the next day, when we loaded one of the boats to make him a level bed, and constructing a stretcher of two oars and a piece of canvas, put him on board and floated down river a couple of milesrunning two small rapidsto a side cañon, which led out to the Lee's Ferry road.

During the afternoon of the 24th, while they were engaged in music, dancing, and every manner of lively sport, two dusty messengers rode up the cañon, bringing from the States the news of the stoppage of the mail and of the approaching march of the troops.

So they hitched up and rolled down the cañon, and out into the valley and then turned due south.

When this dam burst, an avalanche of earth and rock, swept onward by a huge wave, rushed down the cañon, leaving complete destruction in its wake.

She looked vaguely through the wind-shield now and said, "Anywherethat cañon, the one we came home by last week.

And then one afternoon in early May a strange youth came singing down the cañon; came while she mused by the brook-side in her best-loved dream.

The evening silence was broken only by the mysterious whisper of the evening breeze as it stole down the cañon, and by a faint and distant popping of rifle shots.

The scenery surrounding the cañon and falls on both banks of the Yellowstone is enlivened by all the hues of abundant vegetation.