The Unknown River--Alarcon Ascends it Eighty-five Leagues and Names it the Rio de Buena Guia--Melchior Diaz Arrives at its Banks Later and Calls it the Rio del Tizon--Cardenas Discovers the Grand Canyon.
CHAPTER III.

The Grand Canyon--Character of the Colorado River--The Water-Gods; Erosion and Corrasion--The Natives and their Highways--The "Green River Valley" of the Old Trappers--The Strange Vegetation and Some Singular Animals CHAPTER IV.

Onate, 1604, Crosses Arizona to the Colorado--A Remarkable Ancient Ruin Discovered by Padre Kino, 1694--Padre Garces Sees the Grand Canyon and Visits Oraibi, 1776--The Great Entrada of Padre Escalante across Green River to Utah Lake, 1776--Death of Garces Ends the Entrada Period, 1781.
CHAPTER V.Breaking the Wilderness--Wanderings of the Trappers and Fur Traders--General Ashley in Green River Valley, 1824--Pattie along the Grand Canyon, 1826--Lieutenant Hardy, R.N., in a Schooner on the Lower Colorado, 1826--Jedediah Smith, Salt Lake to San Gabriel, 1826--Pattie on the Lower Colorado in Canoes, 1827-28 CHAPTER VI.

Fremont, the Pathfinder--Ownership of the Colorado--The Road of the Gold Seekers--First United States Military Post, 1849--Steam Navigation--Captain Johnson Goes to the Head of Black Canyon CHAPTER VII.

Lieutenant Ives Explores to Fortification Rock--By Trail to Diamond Creek, Havasupai Canyon, and the Moki Towns--Macomb Fails in an Attempt to Reach the Mouth of Grand River--James White's Masterful Fabrication CHAPTER VIII.