THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT

PICTURESQUE BRIGHT ANGEL TRAIL, GRAND CAÑON, ARIZONA

Copyright, 1906,
By Little, Brown, and Company.


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S. J. Parkhill & Co., Boston, U. S. A.

TO
The Unfading Memory
OF
MAJOR JOHN WESLEY POWELL
THE GREAT EXPLORER

Whose name is inseparably linked for all time with the "Titan of Chasms,"the entire length of which he penetrated, revealing its weird and mysteriousgrandeur; whose fidelity to scientific survey has signally advanced the progressof our country; whose wise foresight in advocating water supplies for aridlands, whose heroism amid hardships and whose persistence of energy andnoble purpose forever endear his name to every American and to all who reverethe loftiest achievements of science,

These pages are inscribed by

LILIAN WHITING.

It is a special pleasure to the author to gratefully presenther acknowledgments to Mr. W. H. Simpson, of theSanta Fé; Mr. S. K. Hooper, of the Denver and RioGrande; Mr. David Cameron Mac Watters, of the ShortLine, and Mr. Croycroft, the artist of Santa Fé, NewMexico, for their kind courtesies in facilitating the choiceof subjects for illustration and for their sympathetic encouragementin the effort to interpret something of thesublimity and the loveliness of this land of enchantmentbetween Pike's Peak and the Pacific.

The Brunswick

Boston, October, 1906