The Second Powell Expedition was ready to start.
[Illustration: Before the Start at Green River City, Wyoming.
The dark box open.

_Canonita_; Andy, Clem, Beaman.

_Emma Dean_; Jones, Jack, the Major, Fred.

_Nellie Powell_; Prof., Steward, Cap., Frank.
Photograph by E.O.Beaman, 1871.] FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 1: Powell had received an appointment as Colonel before he left the Volunteer Service, but he was always called Major.] [Footnote 2: For the history of the Colorado River the reader is referred to _The Romance of the Colorado River_, by F.S.

Dellenbaugh.].