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Show Kolb-/ D 767 correct. Q How many did you have in your party? A My brother, and we were accompanied by a young man, James Fagin. We had made arrangements, or tentative arrangements, with different ones at different times to accompany us on the trip, people that we knew. When the time drew near, for one reason and another they withdrew. There had been a published newspaper report about the proposed trip, and a young man wrote to us from San Francisco, stated he wanted to go along. There was considerable correspondence. We finally told him he could go. He also wrote that he had just received a civil service appointment, and couldn't go, but could send another man, and he sent Mr. James Fagin, a boy I think twenty- one yeas old at that time. Q Had you and your brother experimented prior to this time with shooting rapids in and about the Grand Canyon? We had crossed the river several times about one mile above the Bright Angel trail, where it touches the river. My brother had had considerably more experience than I had in that work, and swam a great many horses across the river, holding their beads close to the boat, -- one man rowing, another man holding the halter to the horse's head, sometimes mules, sometimes burros, and took them across the river. 2735 |
