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In This Issue The Ol’ Pioneer The Magazine of the Grand Canyon Historical Society Volume 23 : Number 1 www.GrandCanyonHistory.org Winter 2012 General Ulysses S. Grant Senator Lyman Trumbull Senator Henry Wilson Senator Ben Wade Major John Wesley Powell In This Issue Pop Go the Egyptians ....... 3 The Impeachment of John Wesley Powell ....... 6 George T. Brown, sergeant-at-arms, serving the summons on President Johnson, 1868. President’s Letter The Ol’ Pioneer The Magazine of the Happy New Year everyone! And 2012 is an especially happy year for Arizo- Grand Canyon Historical Society na and Grand Canyon historians. This year we celebrate Arizona’s 100th birth- Volume 24 : Number 41 day as a state (she looks pretty good for her age – must be the dry climate). This Winter 2012 is also the 100th anniversary of the completion of the Kolb brothers historic river trip where they took the footage for their famous movie. But most importantly, u this January we have our third Grand Canyon History Symposium at the south The Historical Society was established rim! in July 1984 as a non-profit corporation When we started initial planning for the symposium a year and a half ago, to develop and promote appreciation, I thought that it was going to require a lot of time, effort, and hard work. I was under-standing and education of the wrong. I had way underestimated it. The actual carving of the Grand Canyon earlier history of the inhabitants and itself was fairly trivial by comparison. The poet Sam Walter Foss once famously important events of the Grand Canyon. wrote, “Give me men to match my mountains.” Fortunately, in the unpaid vol- The Ol’ Pioneer is published by the unteers of the historical society and its partners, we have superheroes to match GRAND CANYON HISTORICAL our symposium. It has been truly gratifying over the last few months to watch SOCIETY in conjunction with The the high degree of dedication and cooperation between the many people in- Bulletin, an informational newsletter. volved in making this happen. The line-up of presenters, tours, and banquet Both publications are a benefit of membership. Membership in the Society speakers is incredible and our registration has been sold out for weeks. This is open to any person interested in the promises to be a great symposium, but it is only possible through great people. historical, educational, and charitable Along with the new year and the new symposium, the society also has a new purposes of the Society. Membership is logo! Professional graphic artist (and canyon enthusiast) James Hayford has on an annual basis using the standard donated his artistry and skills to produce a special logo graphic for the society calendar; and dues of $20 are payable on the 1st of January each year, and mailed featuring the Desert View Watchtower as well as another image of a canyon to the GCHS Treasurer, PO Box 31405 made of books and papers (representing the history of the canyon). Aside from Flagstaff, AZ 86003-1405. The Ol’ Pioneer use on our website and other official places, we are also going to be offering a magazine is copyrighted by the Grand variety of official Grand Canyon Historical Society t-shirts, coffee mugs, etc. for Canyon Historical Society, Inc. All rights sale online featuring the images (all proceeds going to the society). The items reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or used in any form are being offered through the CafePress website: www.cafepress.com/gchs without permission of the publisher. Thank you and happy hiking!!! Editor: Mary Williams Erik Berg Submit photos and stories to the The Ol’ Pioneer GCHS President editor of at: info@ marywilliamsdesign.com or 4880 N Weatherford Road, Flagstaff, AZ 86001. (928) 779-3377. Please submit written articles and photos electronically on CD or via email if possible. You may mail photos or slides for scanning if needed. 2012 Grand Canyon History Symposium Submissions to The Bulletin should be sent to Karen Greig, [email protected] An Official Centennial Event, as sanctioned by the Arizona GCHS Officers Centennial 2012 Foundation Sanctioned Events Committee! Erik Berg, President John Azar, Vice President January 26-29, 2012 Keith Green, Treasurer Tom Martin, Secretary Amy Horn, Pioneer Award Shrine of the Ages, Grand Canyon Village, Grand Canyon National Park Al Richmond, Awards Chair Paul Schnur, Membership Committee John Azar, Outings Coordinator Board of Directors Howard Asaki Amy Horn John Azar Tom Martin The Ol’ Pioneer submission deadlines are going to be roughly January, April, Erik Berg Mona McCroskey July and October and we will publish either three or four issues a year, Ellen Brennan Tom Martin Kathy Faretta Carol Naille depending on content volume. Keith Green Wayne Ranney Karen Greig Paul Schnur 2 : Grand Canyon Historical Society Pop Go the Egyptians by Don Lago and they find his dead horse and his and a Grand Canyon cave. Cheryl diary, which includes an account of travels, more conventionally, to the n my Summer of 2009 Ol’ Pioneer him trying to scale a canyon cliff. They Grand Canyon, pursued by both the article about the origins of the find Aztec symbols painted on a cliff U.S. Air Force and a ruthless- Mafia- myth of the Egyptian cave in the and push on it, and a secret doorway like collector of ancient artifacts. IGrand Canyon, I reported that this opens up, revealing a cave full of Cheryl rides mules to Phantom myth had already taken a firm hold in Aztecan symbols. From the cave they Ranch and then hikes six miles to the the New Age community, and I pre- emerge in a hidden canyon with an Egyptian cave. The cave holds time- dicted that it would continue appear- Aztec temple—and living Aztecs! The travel technology with which future ing and evolving. In the last few years Aztecs are in the process of sacrificing humans had tried to come back to the this myth has started showing up in members of Dr. Jordan’s team; they 20th century to warn people about popular culture, where it is gaining a cut out one man’s heart and offer it the dangers of fossil fuels and global much wider audience. Here are three to Quetzalcoatl, the Aztec god who warming. But the time travelers developments. turns out to be a flying, dragon-type had miscalculated and transported In December, 2008, the SciFi monster. Susan and her friends come themselves back an extra 10,000 years. Channel broadcast its original movie to the rescue, and then they flee and They then built the pyramids to hide Lost Treasure of the Grand Canyon. fight their way through a labyrinth of their advanced technologies, which It was filmed in the deep valley of tunnels, where a booby-trap axe falls one day would provide humans with Cache Creek in British Columbia, and cuts off one man’s head, and the clean, abundant energy. which is one of the few places in roof collapses. The Phoenix Gazette Also in 2009 appeared a novel by Canada with a desert environment, reporter is devoured by Quetzalcoatl. popular kid’s novelist Dan Gutman. but otherwise Cache Creek was a poor Dr. Jordan and Susan escape. Dr. The Return of the Homework Machine impersonation of the Grand Canyon. Jordan never explains how he could was a sequel to Gutman’s successful The movie was a poor impersonation have mistaken Aztecan artifacts for novel The Homework Machine, in of an Indiana Jones movie, almost a Egyptian artifacts, or why the movie which the fifth-grade kids at the parody of one, with bad acting, bad producers weren’t content to fill the Grand Canyon school use a computer dialogue, a melodramatic plot, and hidden canyon with evil Egyptian superchip to build a machine that cheap special effects, including a priests and mummies. does their homework for them. laughable quicksand scene. In 2009 appeared the science- To hide their secret they end up The movie starts with a Phoenix fiction novelSecrets of El Tovar Canyon, catapulting the homework machine Gazette reporter showing up at a by Michael Cole. into the canyon. In the sequel the Hopi ruin, where archaeologist Rafters discover a golden tablet kids realize that the superchip wasn’t Susan Jordan is conducting an buried in the sand along the Colorado destroyed by its crash in the canyon. excavation. Susan Jordan is the River at the bottom of the Grand In the school library they run across daughter of Dr. Samuel Jordan, who Canyon. An archaeologist reads its the Phoenix Gazette article about the had led a Smithsonian expedition hieroglyphs and map and realizes Egyptian cave, and along with their into the Grand Canyon to prove his the tablet depicts the Great Pyramid teacher Mr. Murphy they decide to theories that the ancient Egyptians of Giza and the Sphinx—and secret go find it. But a bad kid steals the had explored America. The Phoenix underground passageways. The superchip and adds it to his GPS Gazette reporter had recently archaeologist, Cheryl, then learns unit and goes to claim the Egyptian published a story on Dr. Jordan’s about Dr. Jordan’s 1909 expedition, treasure for himself and an adult discoveries, and was supposed to which left a rich trove of artifacts in accomplice, Richard Milner. The kids meet Dr. Jordan here today. But Dr. the Smithsonian, including strange and Mr. Murphy hike to Phantom Jordan has disappeared. The reporter giant mummies. Cheryl travels to Ranch and borrow a raft and head shows Susan some Egyptian artifacts Egypt and discovers, in a secret downstream to the Egyptian temples that Dr.
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