Hermione wrote:

"I tried to get hold of I tried to get hold of Dutton, C. E. 1882a. The Tertiary History of the Grand Canon District. US Geological Survey, Monograph 2"

A person can download the PDF version from Google Books for free.

[books.google.com]

Also, there is the Internet archive, which has a better copy.

[ia600905.us.archive.org]

The PDF of the accompanying atlas can be found at:

[play.google.com]

and at:

[www.kaibab.org]

[www.loc.gov]

and wrote "but nothing about AE names."

Oops.

I posted a draft version of my post in which I used "Egyptian names," for lack of a better term, to cover the names of landforms
that contained mythological deities in the Bright Angel and Vishnu 1:48,000 quadrangles. In the final version I scrubbed
"Egyptian names," because I finally realized that Atahmose was talking about specific names, "Tower of Ra," "Tower of
Set," "Cheops Pyramids," and so forth. Somehow it was not the version that I posted.

Capt. Dutton started the tradition of naming geographical features in this part of Grand Canyon after mythological deities in 1882.
The names of landforms that contained mythological deities. The actual names of landforms that contained Egyptian mythological
deities, from waht I have found, appeared in 1903, six years before the 1909 news article with the publication of the Bright Angel,
Arizona Quadrangle. In case of these names, E. M. Douglas, Geographer in charge, an USGS employe, is responsible for naming
of these specific landforms after Egyptian mythological deities. However, he was following in the tradition of Capt. Dutton for
naming landforms in this part of the Grand Canyon. Therefore the 1903 map would be the possible direct inspiration for the
newspaper article. Capt. Dutton inspired the mapmakers in their naming of the actual landforms.

The 1903 Bright Angel 1:48,000 topographic map can be found at;

[ngmdb.usgs.gov]

The 1907 Vishnu 1:48,000 topographic map can be found at;

[ngmdb.usgs.gov]

I have been told, there is more details about this on page 151 of:

Randy Moore and Kara Felicia Witt, The Grand Canyon: An Encyclopedia of Geography, History, and Culture, 2018, ABC-CLIO Publisher

However, i do not have access to this publication.

Sorry about this confusion.

Yours,

Paul H.

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner, Act 1, Scene III, Requiem for a Nun (1951)



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