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The bar pinches down to a narrow bench between the cliff and the river at mile 55.7 and from that point to the mouth of Rock Creek there is a gentle slope of sand and talus between the cliff and the river. At mile 55.7 there are the remains of a fence and a gate by which it is presumed the entire bar upstream could be controlled. A crude trail about 30 ft. long has been worked in the steep sandstone just below the fence. On a stone by the gate this appears: AUG 1932 WALTER ALLEN and on the cliff wall nearby this appears: WA 1932. Wildhorse Bar undoubtedly is the uppermost bar on the right bank in Glen Canyon which can be reached easily from the open country above. It is accessible by way of Rock Creek from the upper reaches of Rock Creek and the Kaiparowits Plateau, and presumably from the Last Chance Creek drainage and the open country about the Crossing of the Fathers, by a trail following close to the rim above the river. The earliest grazing on the bar probably antidates 1932 (if Walter Allen was a grazier) but this has not been determined. There is evidence of cattle having been on the bar within the last two or three years. About half way between the fence and the mouth of Rock Creek, the names of recent tourist parties have been incised on the cliff wall. About 200 yards east of the bench mark at mile 56.15 the name "J. Wetherill" appears incised on the cliff wall among scattered petroglyphs. This is doubtlessly John Wetherill of Kayenta, but the circumstances of a visit by him to Wildhorse Bar are not known. The reason for the naming of Wildhorse Bar, which appears first on the River Map Sheet F, published in 1921, has not been determined. It is said by the rivermen that a stallion, mean enough to kill burros, was found on the bar sometime during the mining period. However, it is not evident that any mining has been done on the bar, even though there is an extensive gravel terrace which might seem to offer good prospects. Probably the earliest whites to reach the bar were two of the three prospectors-Pardyn Dodds, George Riley, and John Bonnemort-who had brought supplies to Cane Bar for the second Powell expedition and 80Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 14,260,224 byte