This largest Indian reservation of the nation has 16,750,0000 acres of the wildest, most beautiful and grimly sterile expanse of slickrock and sand on the face of the earth. Most of it is good for nothing but scenery, and even this asset goes...
2008-12-01
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Journal: Anthropological Notes, University of Utah Department of Anthropology, "Historical Sites in Glen Canyon, Mouth of San Juan River to Lee's Ferry", Number 46, June 1960, page 67
1960-06-01
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With the abandonment of the Crossing of the Fathers after the 1870's, travel in Navajo Canyon also ceased and it was forgotten except as it may have been visited later by stockmen and prospectors. In 1936 a youthful prospector, Byron Davies,...
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THE NAVAJO PROBLEM AND THE COLORADO RIVER PROJECT BY SAMUEL W. TAYLOR THERE was an air of urgency about the Navajo Indian agency at Window Rock, Ariz. Between the offices hurried Navajos of the new generation, girls with permanents and nylons,...
2008-12-01
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Navajo Creek is passable by foot and horseback from the mouth to Kaibito Creek (as it is upstream form there) and may have been used as an aboriginal route to reach the Colorado. Two of the members of the DomÃnguez-Escalante party in 1776 managed...
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NEW MEXI CO
NAVAJO IRRIGATION PROJECT: Located in northwestern
New Mexico, along south side of San Juan River
in Farmington-Shiprock area.
PRINCIPAL FEATURES: (This project is part of the
basin-wide development proposed in the Colorado River...
2008-11-01
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Journal: Anthropological Notes, University of Utah Department of Anthropology, "Historical Sites in Glen Canyon, Mouth of San Juan River to Lee's Ferry", Number 46, June 1960, page 8
1960-06-01
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Journal: Anthropological Notes, University of Utah Department of Anthropology, "Outline History of the Glen Canyon Region 1776 - 1922", Number 42, September 1959, page 96
1959-09-01
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25. Located on Navajo Creek, right bank at the confluence of Kaibito Creek River Map Sheet C; Indian horse trail from open country above into Navajo Canyon, mentioned by DomÃnguez-Escalante expedition, 1776; trail out on other side repaired by...
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River" (in 1858); this is just about the distance between the head of the trail going into Navajo Canyon and Cane Bar. Andrus in 1866 did not cross the river but he learned that the Navajos had escaped a short time before by crossing on the ice....
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Figures Page
1. Stock Trail. Historical site 15 38
2. Entrance to Gunsight Pass. Historical site 11 38
3. Inscriptions on the cliff wall. Historical site 11 38
4. Notched step locations. Historical site 8 39
5. Inscriptions...
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