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THE PROFOUND ABYSS
Photograph by H.T. Cowling
ROMANTIC INDIAN LEGEND
THE Indians believed the Grand Canyon the road to heaven. A great chief mourned the death of his wife. To him came the god Ta-vwoats and offered to prove that his wife was in a happier land by taking him there to look upon her happiness. Ta-vwoats then made a trail through the protecting mountains and led the chief to the happy land. Thus was created the canyon gorge of the Colorado.
On their return, lest the unworthy should find this happy land, Ta-vwoats rolled through the trail a wild, surging river. Thus was created the Colorado.
KAIBAB SUSPENSION BRIDGE
Built by the National Park Service to span the Colorado
River at the foot of the Kaibab Trail
Photograph by Fred Harvey
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