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THE NEW GRAND CANYON BOOK.
This is "In and Around the Grand
-Canyon , " by George Wharfcon James ,
jnst published by Little , Brown & Co.
It is a good sized book , with many pho
tographic illustrations , as well of the
Grand Canyon as of the author , on ex
cellent pap&r. The pictures of the
canyon are handsome and valuable , but
there should have been a map , also an
index , in a work of this sort. Books of
any pretensions are not complete nowa
days unless indexed , and this book
deals sufficiently with the history , geol
ogy and geography of its subject to be
called a work of considerable preten
sions. Its subject , of course , is the
Grand Canyon ( to follow the author's
spelling ) of the Colorado river in Ari
zona.
Though Mr. James spells canon , can
yon , which it is quite lawful to do , lie
does otherwise with Zuili , for instance ,
spelling it Zuni , with neither tilde nor
y. On the other hand , he goes out of his
way to spell Santa Fe , Santa Fe , thus
departing both from the better Spanish
practice and from that of the A. T. &
S. F. railway company.
Mr. James maybe well acquainted
with Spanish ( one ought to be before
writing books on the south-west ) but
one is tempted to conjecture that he is not
learned in the early history of his re
gion ; the early American history , that
is. Otherwise he could hardly , for in
stance , have made so frequent mention
of the geographical name Williams
without giving some account of Old Bill
Williams himself ; nor would he have
followed Major Powell into one very
strange error.
In his historical survey , ho says , on
page 18 , "In 1855 , a party of several
men , led by one Ashley , made an at
tempt to come through the canyon , and
they were soon wrecked , and all but
Ashley and one companion drowned. "
His authority is Major Powell , to whom
he dedicates his book , and whose ignor
ance ( in 1872) ) in this matter has often
been wondered at. The Ashley who at
tempted to descend Green or Colorado
river was General William H. Ashley of
St. Louis , who was lieutenant-governor
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of Missouri from 1820 to 1824 , a member
of congress and a very conspicuous man
in his time. It was in 1825 that ho made
this venture , not 1855 , and none of his
men were lost , if his narrative has been
correctly transmitted.
One thing which strikes the reader is
the number of features of the. , canyon
region which the author says he has
himself named. In this regard , as in
the matter of personal narration , the
contrast with a somewhat similar work ,
Colonel Chittenden's "Yellowstone Na
tional Park , " is very marked. It is not
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There is some curious , and , I believe ,
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John D. Leo , the Mormon , which the
author has collected at first hand.
A. T. E.
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