2-752-504 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Kanab Cañon', 1874. Rock formation on Kanab Creek, Utah, USA. The creek is a tributary of the Colorado River and is part of the Grand Canyon system. 'Kanab Cañon is about sixty miles long, and, by following its bed, one can descend to the bottom of the Grand Cañon. It is a very difficult task, requiring several days' severe labor...The picture drawn by the artist of a pinnacle in one of the angles of the Kanab is from a photograph taken by Mr. [John Karl] Hillers [US government photographer]. The pinnacle itself is about eight hundred, and the wall in the background of the illustration more than four thousand feet in altitude'. 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]