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Show WITH SITGREAVES TO THE PACIFIC Fig. 90. View of Canon near Camp 39 {19}. Lithograph based on a drawing by Richard H. Kern. Lorenzo Sitgreaves, Report of an Expedition down the Zuni and Colorado Rivers (Washington, D.C, 1853). at the confluence of the Big Sandy and the Santa Maria, and entering the Colorado just above today's Parker Dam. On October 23, then, Leroux was mistaken in assuming they had reached Bill Williams Fork, whose name Kern helped preserve for posterity. Instead, the explorers were on the spring-fed upper end of Hell Canyon, just south of Bill Williams Mountain. Their error in placing Williams Fork too far east would cause some confusion for the next group to make a reconnaissance of the area.51 Sitgreaves hoped to explore up the Colorado River. When the stream he believed to be Williams Fork led him toward the southwest, he left it and continued west by northwest, hoping to strike the Colorado near the Grand Canyon. Once away from the river, however, water was scarce. On October 27, they "struck an In- 169 |
