Colorado River (Bishop Map) P.1

Bishop map of the Powell Expedition, 1871.Manuscript maps drawn by Francis M. Bishop, member of the second Powell expedition through the canyons of the Colorado in 1871, show the river from Green River, Wyoming to Lee's Ferry, Arizona. The portion of one here reproduced shows the area of the Crossing of the Fathers. Camp No. 79 where the Powell expedition spent the days of October 6-13, 1871, is just upstream a few yards from a small stream now called Kane Creek which is the present foot of navigation for pleasure boats in Glen Canyon. This point if connected by a trail shown in the dotted line, which enters another stream about a mile below. This is Navajo Canyon, or Padre Creek, and the entrance to the ford crossed by the Spanish padres in 1776. The trail out of the ford leads to Fort Defiance. The Mormon scout and explorer, Jacob Hamblin, crossed here and so did the Navajo Indians who preyed on the Mormon settlements in southern Utah. Top of the map faces east, the left border north. Used in Utah Historical Society Quarterly, July, 1960, vol. XXVIII, no. 3