By EDWIN CORLE Duell, Sloan and Pearce New York Copyright, 1946, by
Edwin Corle All rights reserve including the right to re-produce
this lyook or portions thereof in any form. First edition To Horace
W. Armstrong . . . and if this expedition has any right to success
or sur vival, then listen to a scientists prayer, O Bright Angel of
Im mortality. . . . Contents I. CENTRAL CHARACTER 1. An Island in
Time 3 2. Tonto Sea 6 3. Life 11 4. A Canyon Is Bom 16 II. MORE OR
LESS HEROES 1. Theres Something About a Soldier 25 2. The Little
Man and the Big Cross 45 3. Escalante and Dominguez 59 4.
Lieutenant Ives Is Not Amused 75 5. Life at Lees Ferry 92 IIL ROW
YOUR BOAT 1. Ashley 108 2. Powell 113 3. Brown-Stanton, 128 4. The
Amazing Kolb Brothers 137 5. Eddy 152 6. A Bride and Groom 162 7.
White 173 8. Tweedledum and Tweedledee 182 vii CONTENTS IV. SOUTH
RIM 1. Oh, Yes, Ive Seen the Grand Canyon 191 2. Those Who Came
Before 197 3. And Those Who Came Later 206 4. Trail-Wise and
Trail-Weary 216 5. A Hundred Million Customers 230 V. LAND OF THE
SKY BLUE WATER 1. Where Nothing Ever Happens 242 2. Sunday in
Havasu Falls 249 3. Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go with Friday on
Saturday Night 257 4. One Mind in Indian Time 264 VL NORTH RIM 1.
Kaibab Country 279 2. Thunder River and Toroweap 290 3. The Dirty
Devil and the Bright Angel 300 INDEX 304 viii I Central Character
SOUTH RIM TO NORTH RtU ABOUT TEN MILES a t j o o re UJ a. oe Ul cu
DEVONIAN NU x UJ o JH uJ 1 KAIBAB LIMESTONE COCONINO SANDSTONE,
UPAl FORMATION. SANDSTONES, LIMESTONES 7 AND SHALES, JHE RED WALL 1
tLlMESTONE LIMESTONE flRljSHY ANGEL SHALE 1, , THE TONTO GROUP t V
I i . TAPEATS SANDSTONE ARCHAEAN ERA G lSSES, SCHISTS, 6RANITES
ROCKS ONEARTH SCHEMATIC CROSS SECTION OF THE GRAND CANYON FROM
SOUTH RIM TO RIVER AT GRAND CANYON VILLAGE LOOKING WEST, DEPTHS OF
VARIOUS STRATA ARE APPROXIMATE FIGURES. An Island in Time T, HE
world was in a fine state nobody was on earth. And it was a lucky
thing they werent, for if they had they would have been cooked to
the condition of a sizzling steak in something less than one
second. In fact the figure is inept. On the centigrade scale water
boils at one hundred degrees. The temperature of the surface of the
earth was about six thousand degrees centigrade. A siz zling steak
would have been ice-cold by comparison, and could not have existed
for one second. Even such heat-resistant elements as platinum and
carbon were not only melted, but they were in a state of gaseous
nebulae. The world was a ball of hot gas, and hot is not the word
for it. Its temperature was the result of sub-atomic energy from
the interior which reached the amazing value of twenty million
degrees. It is beyond comprehension. If the electric heater in your
bath room could be stepped up to this level it would instantly set
fire to anything and everything within a radius of many thousand
miles. The reason for all this was that the earth had just been
born. Because of the gravitational pull of a passing star it had
been wrenched and torn from the body of its mother, the sun. It was
made up entirely of sun-stuff. This was three billion years ago. If
there is one thing that the earth has always had in abun . LISTEN,
BRIGHT ANGEL dance, that thing is time. If time is money, the earth
is a pluto cratat least, from the point of view of little man. But
when the first crust formed and the ball of hot gas had passed
through astate of liquefaction to solidity, living things had not
yet appeared. All this was the preparatory stage the first billion
years were the hardestand the earth, painfully and slowly, was
getting ready to produce life. The crust deepened until the outer
surface had a depth of forty miles and the internal heat, slowly
diminishing, was sealed in the interior. This was the Archeozoic
era, geologi cally speaking, and while much of the surface was
covered with water, the oldest known rocks were formed and re
formed and folded and tilted and fused...
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