It was a great rendezvous, also, for the early trappers and traders, and here stood Fort Davy Crockett, in those days famous.

It was one of those necessary places of refuge and meeting, established when the trappers were pursuing their extermination of the beaver, which once were so numerous in all the Western country.

The river enters this park from the solitudes of Red Canyon, a splendid chasm, 25 miles long, 2500 feet deep, and abounding in plunging waters.

The name is from the colour of the sandstone walls.

Above it are three short canyons, Kingfisher, Horseshoe, and Flaming Gorge, aggregating about 10 miles.