THE GRAND CANYON OF ARIZONA [SOLD]

THE GRAND CANYON OF ARIZONA By George Wharton James

Publisher: Little, Brown, and Company

Hardback, first edition, 1910

Green fabric cover with gold lettering and colored image of the Grand Canyon

Over 87 illustrations and maps, 265 pages

Condition: as new, and does not appear to have ever been read

From the FOREWORD

          “Upwards of ten years ago, I sat on the south rim of the Grand Canyon and wrote ‘In and Around the Grand Canyon.’  In that book I included much that more than a decade of wandering up and down the trails of this great abyss had taught me.  At that time the only accommodations for sightseers were stage lines or private conveyance from Flagstaff and Ash Fork, and, on arrival at the Canyon, the crude hotel-camps at Hance’s, Grand View, Bright Angel, and Bass’s.  The railway north from Williams was being built.  Everything was crude and primitive.

          “Now the railway is completed and has become an integral part of the great Santa Fe System, with at least two trains a day each way carrying Pullman sleepers, chair cars and coaches.  At Bright Angel, where the railway deposits its passengers at the rim of the Canyon, stands El Tovar Hotel, erected by the railway company at a cost of over a quarter of a million dollars, which is equipped and conducted by Fred Harvey.  Yet El Tovar is more like a country club than a hotel, in many respects, and, to that extent, is better.

          “New roads and trails have been opened up, and further provision made for the entertainment of travelers visiting the Canyon.  Hence, for several years, there has been a growing demand for a revision of ‘In and Around the Grand Canyon’ that should bring it up to date and include all this additional matter.  Instead of a revision, I decided to write practically a new book, presenting in another form all the needful information contained in the earlier work, as well as giving in extended detail all the new description demanded.  It also has been decided to make the book lighter in weight and handier in form, so that it can be slipped into the pocket or hand-bag, and thus used on the spot by those who wish a ready reference handbook to the Canyon, and its wonders.

          “If this and my earlier book add anything to the pleasure and profit of those who visit this ‘waterway of the gods,’ I shall be both gratified and satisfied.”

                                      Signed, George Wharton James

                                                   El Tovar, Grand Canyon

                                                   September, 1909

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1.      The Grand Canyon of Arizona

2.      On the Grand Canyon Railway to El Tovar

3.      El Tovar and its Equipments

4.      The Grand Canyon at El Tovar

5.      Three Ways of Spending one Day at the Canyon

6.      How to Spend Two to Five Days at El Tovar

7.      How Fully to See and Know the Grand Canyon Region

8.      From El Tovar Down the Bright Angel Trail

9.      To Grand View and Down the Grand View Trail

10.     A New “Rim” Road and Trail into the Scenic Heart of the Canyon

11.     From El Tovar to Bass Camp and Down the Bass Trail

12.     Across the Grand Canyon to Point Sublime

13.     How the Canyon was Formed

14.     The Canyon—Above and Below

15.     The Hopi House

16.     Visiting Indians at El Tovar

17.     The Navaho and Hopi Blanket Weavers

18.     Pueblo and Navaho Pottery and Silverware

19.     The Hopis and their Snake Dance

20.     An Historic Trail Across the Grand Canyon Country

21.     The Navaho and his Desert Home

22.     From El Tovar to the Havasupai Indians and their Wonderful Cataract Canyon Homes

23.     The First Discoveries and Inhabitants of the Grand Canyon

24.     El Tovar and Cardenas and the Modern Discovery of the Grand Canyon

25.     Fray Marcos and Garcés, and their Connection with the Grand Canyon

26.     Powell’s and Other Explorations of the Grand Canyon

27.     Indian Legends About the Grand Canyon

28.     The Colorado River from the Mountains to the Sea

29.     Climate and Weather at the Grand Canyon

30.     The Grand Canyon for Pleasure, Rest and Recuperation

31.     The Story of a Boat

32.     The Grand Canyon a Forest Reserve, Game Preserve and National Monument