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Site number 1. Glen Canyon Dam; authorized for construction, 1956. 2. Mile 45.5 River Map Sheet D, left bank, history unknown, Indian trail; log dugway and horse trail cut in steep rock providing access from open country above to river bar. (Fig. 8) 3. Mile 49.8 River Map Sheet D, left bank, Indian horse trail to river bar from open country above discovered by Bernheimer expedition 1921; log dugway at base of trail and steps cut into steep rock. 4. Mile 50.7 River Map Sheet D, left bank; visited by Bernheimer expedition 1921; inscriptions of John Wetherill, guide for party; dated 1921, also 1931 on cliff wall, archeological site. (Fig. 47) 5. On Last Chance Creek about 1 3/4 mile from mouth, sec. 10 T43S R6E SLBM; history unknown, probably headquarters for stock; ruined rock house. 6. Mile 42.5 River Map Sheet D, left bank; Indian horse trail, history unknown; log dugway steps cut into steep rock to provide access to river bar from open country above. 7. Cane Bar; mile 41.4 - 42.1 River Map Sheet D, right bank, sec. 17-18 T43S R6E SLBM; mining prospect; bar of low elevation above river. 8. Navajo Canyon, (Padre Creek); mouth at mile 39.9 River Map Sheet D, T43S R5-6E SLBM, Gunsight Butte Quad USGS (1953); discovered by the Dominguez-Escalante expedition in 1776, used by other parties later as access route from open country to ford on Colorado known as Crossing of the Fathers; steps discovered in 1937 when the name Padre Canyon applied to the older Navajo Canyon as shown on township plats (1934); steps cut by Spanish discoverers on right bank and by later parties on left bank about 200 yards from mouth of creek. (Figs. 4, 5, 6) -92-Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 13,883,392 byte