Grand Canyon

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Grand Canyon in the fall season remains a photographer’s challenge with its colorful geological landscapes.

The Havasupai tribe has made the canyon its home for over 900 years up to and including the present time. In ancient times the Native American Anazasi occupied some 2000 sites in and near the canyon.

Spanish explorers first recorded seeing the Grand Canyon in 1540 while searching for the Seven Golden Cities of Cibola.

Later, in the summer of 1869, Major John Wesley Powell led the first expedition to explore the length of the canyon. He accomplished this difficult feat with a small boat crew on the treacherous Colorado River.

Posted: November 20, 2003 
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