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Historical site 121 This is a large grazing area extending along the left bank of the Colorado from mile 43.3 to 44.6 consisting of a flat sand terrace about 500 ft. wide at the maximum point and a high sand slope at the base of the cliff. A forked stick hogan and ramada poles are located on the sand at about mile 44 about 100 yards from the river. The site is reached by a stock trail that heads immediately upstream from a dry waterfall (about mile 43.8) and descends steeply along a narrow ledge of rock on the face of the cliff (steps have been picked in the steepest places) to the top of the dune and then over a heavy sand trail to the bottom land. The vertical descent is about 400 ft. Where the trail reaches the top of the sand dune at the base of the rock ledge there are a number of names and dates crudely written on the cliff face, probably by Indians. The date 1958 was noticed. The only apparent residents of this site, September 7, 1959, were two burros. NA, UU archeological sites (Fowler 1959, 523, 531). Navajo sites are reported by the Museum of Northern Arizona archeological survey on the elevated platform west of this site. Historical site 95 - Face Canyon Face Canyon, named by river men in recent times for the face-like figures which can be seen on the right wall of the canyon at the entrance, opens out on the upper end of the terrace at Historical site 121 at mile 44.4. The Museum of Northern Arizona archeological survey in a report soon to be published lists a number of aboriginal sites in this canyon extending up as far as four and one-half miles, including Navajo stock trails and older foot trails. One of these, a series of 17 steps cut in the rounding sandstone knoll at the left side of the mouth of the canyon is also reported by University of Utah archeological survey (Fowler, 1959). The steps, covering 25 vertical feet, were too weathered to permit climbing. Historical site 2 This is a sand terrace grazing area extending along the left bank from mile 45.4 to 46.4, reached by a stock trail which descends over a sandstone knob precisely at the right mouth of a box canyon in which is a perennial stream entering the river at mile 45.5. The box canyon, about one-half mile long, and the sand terrace had very recently been grazed by sheep when the site was visited September 8, 1959, but none were seen. An elaborate stock trail consisting of log shoring and deeply 26Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 14,454,784 byte