Tales of Lonely Trails

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Tales of Lonely Trails

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Title: Tales of lonely trails
Author: Zane Grey
Release Date: May 1, 2004 [EBook #12225]
Language: English
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TALES OF LONELY TRAILS
BY ZANE GREY
1922
[Illustration: Zane Grey]
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I.
NONNEZOSHE
II. COLORADO TRAILS
III. ROPING LIONS IN THE GRAND CANYON
IV. TONTO BASIN
V. DEATH VALLEY

ILLUSTRATIONS
ZANE GREY
Z.G. AFTER TWO MONTHS IN THE WILDS
THERE WAS SOMETHING BEYOND THE WHITE PEAKED RANGES
WEIRD AND WONDERFUL MONUMENTS IN MONUMENT VALLEY
SUNSET ON THE DESERT
CAVE OF THE CLIFF DWELLERS
THIS IMMENSE CAVE WOULD HOLD TRINITY CHURCH. IN IT LIES THE RUINED CLIFF DWELLING CALLED BETATAKIN
THE WIND-WORN TREACHEROUS SLOPES ON THE WAY TO NONNEZOSHE
FIRST SIGHT OF THE GREAT NATURAL BRIDGE
NONNEZOSHE
PACK HORSES ON A SAGE SLOPE IN COLORADO
THE GRASSY UPLANDS, WITH WHITELEY'S PEAK IN THE DISTANCE
A SPRUCE-SHADED, FLOWER-SKIRTED LAKE
LOOKING DOWN UPON CLOUD-FILLED VALLEYS
SEARCHING BURNED-OVER RANGES FOR GAME
A HUNTER'S CABIN ON A FROSTY MORNING
THE TROUBLESOME COUNTRY, NOTED FOR GRIZZLY BEARS
UNDER THE SHADOW OF THE FLATTOP MOUNTAINS
WHITE ASPEN TREE SHOWING MARKS OF BEAR CLAWS
A BLACK BEAR TREED
CROSSING THE COLORADO RIVER AT THE BOTTOM OF THE GRAND CANYON
WHERE ROLLS THE COLORADO
DOWN THE SHINUMO TRAIL OF THE NORTH RIVER
CAMP AT THE SADDLE
BUCKSKIN FOREST
BUFFALO JONES WITH SOUNDER AND RANGER
JONES ABOUT TO LASSO A MOUNTAIN LION
REMAINS OF A DEER KILLED BY LIONS
A LION TIED
FIGHTING WEETAHS (BUFFALO BULLS) ON BUFFALO JONES'S DESERT RANCH
TREED LION
TREED LION
TREED LION
HIDING
A DRINK OF COLD GRANITE WATER UNDER THE RIM
WHICH IS THE PIUTE
WILD HORSES DRINKING ON A PROMONTORY IN THE GRAND CANYON
JONES AND EMETT PACKING LION ON HORSE
JONES CLIMBING UP TO LASSO LION
TWO LIONS IN ONE TREE
JONES, EMETT, AND THE NAVAJO WITH THE LIONS
BILLY IN CAMP
LION LICKING SNOWBALL
SOME OF OUR MENAGERIE IN BUCKSKIN FOREST
WHITE MUSTANG STALLION WITH HIS BUNCH OF BLACKS IN SNAKE GULCH
ON THE WAY HOME
RIDING WITH A NAVAJO
THE AUTHOR AND HIS MEN
ROMER-BOY ON HIS FAVORITE STEED
THE TONTO BASIN
LISTENING FOR THE HOUNDS
ZANE GREY ON DON CARLOS
WILD TURKEY
WILD TURKEYS
THE WHITE QUAKING ASPS
THE SKUNK, A FREQUENT AND RATHER DANGEROUS VISITOR IN CAMP
ON THE RIM
WHERE ELK, DEER, AND TURKEY DRINK
WHERE BEAR CROSS THE RIDGE FROM ONE CANYON TO ANOTHER
CLIMBING OVER THE TOUGH MANZANITA
BEAR IN SIGHT ACROSS CANYON
Z.G.'S CINNAMON BEAR
R.C.'S BIG BROWN BEAR
ANOTHER BEAR
MEAT IN CAMP
BURROS PACKED FOR THE TRAIL
THE DEADLY CHOLLA, MOST POISONOUS AND PAIN INFLICTING OF THE CACTUS
THE COLORED CALICO MOUNTAINS
DOWN THE LONG WINDING WASH TO DEATH VALLEY
DESOLATION AND DECAY. LOOKING DOWN OVER THE DENUDED RIDGES TO THE STARK VALLEY OF DEATH
DESERT GRAVES
THE GHASTLY SWEEP OF DEATH VALLEY
IN THE CENTER OF THE SALT-INCRUSTED FLOOR OF DEATH VALLEY, THREE HUNDRED FEET BELOW SEA LEVEL

TALES OF LONELY TRAILS
CHAPTER I
NONNEZOSHE
John Wetherill, one of the famous Wetherill brothers and trader at Kayenta, Arizona, is the man who discovered Nonnezoshe, which is probably the most beautiful and wonderful natural phenomenon in the world. Wetherill owes the credit to his wife, who, through her influence with the Indians finally after years succeeded in getting the secret of the great bridge.
After three trips to Marsh Pass and Kayenta with my old guide, Al Doyle of Flagstaff, I finally succeeded in getting Wetherill to take me in to Nonnezoshe. This was in the spring of 1913 and my party was the second one, not scientific, to make the trip. Later this same year Wetherill took in the Roosevelt party and after that the Kolb brothers. It is a safe thing to say that this trip is one of the most beautiful in the West. It is a hard one and not for everybody. There is no guide except Wetherill, who knows how to get there. And after Doyle and I came out we admitted that we would not care to try to return over our back trail. We doubted if we could find the way. This is the only place I have ever visited which I am not sure I could find again alone.
My trip to Nonnezoshe gave me the opportunity to see also Monument Valley, and the mysterious and labyrinthine Canyon Segi with its great prehistoric cliff-dwellings.
The desert beyond Kayenta spread out impressively, bare red flats and plains of sage leading to the rugged vividly-colored and wind-sculptured sandstone heights typical of the Painted Desert of Arizona. Laguna Creek, at that season, became flooded after every thunderstorm; and it was a treacherous red-mired quicksand where I convinced myself we would have stuck forever had it not been for Wetherill's Navajos.
We rode all day, for the most part closed in by ridges and bluffs, so that no extended view was possible. It was hot, too, and the sand blew and