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Journal of Western Travel
by John McTurk Gibson
edited by Weldon Hoppe
August 8th, 1859 -- Ten miles more through the dust, and we reach a rugged canon, through which the travel passes only at certain seasons. When the water is high, all the teams go over the bluffs, we took the canon and crossed the river four times during the passage. The road composed entirely of large cobblestones, was pretty severe on the feet of our cattle, here I discovered a human skull, from its peculiar conformation I should suppose that it had belonged at one time to some unfortunate Indian. The canon is six miles long, two miles on this side and we are again camped in splendid grass. Today I traded off my gun, which had met with several misfortunes, for a Colt revolver.Powell
Travelled 16 miles. We passed through a canon this afternoon of 6 miles. Last knight we had a frost and ice as thick as window glass. We have had two from last evening to this time in passing down the canon. We crossed the river 4 times.