2-752-501 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Glen Cañon', 1874. View of Glen Canyon, part of an immense system of canyons carved out by the Colorado River and its tributaries in Utah and Arizona, USA. 'At the end of Narrow Cañon, the character of the gorge changes, and, from that point to the place where the Paria River enters the Colorado...it is called Glen Cañon. At the mouth of the Paria, a trail leads down the cliffs to the bottom of the cañon...The smooth and precipitous character of the walls of Glen Cañon is well shown in the illustration. The chasm is carved in homogeneous red sandstone, and in some places, for a thousand feet on the face of the rock, there is scarce a check or seam'. From "Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes...with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American Artists" Vol. II, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1874]