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Some 5-6 million years ago the Colorado river established its course in Arizona and began carving the 277-mi (446 km) Grand Canyon, which is 6,093 ft (1,857 m) deep and up to 18 mi (29 km) wide. Though inhabited by numerous Native American peoples for millennia, it was "discovered" by García López de Cárdenas y Figueroa, who travel to the "rio Tizon" in 1540; no Europeans reached the site again until 1776 when 2 priests, Francisco Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, sought a route from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to California. It was forgotten again until 1826, when James Ohio Pattie of Kentucky visited with trappers (2 years later his father became the 1st American to be buried in California). In 1858 Brigham Young sent Jacob Hamblin to rediscover the 1776 Crossing of the Fathers; Hamblin made many trips to the area and helped found Mormon settlements on the Little Colorado River south of the canyon; he was John Wesley Powell's liaison with the natives in 1870. Powell was the 1st to refer to the "Grand Canyon." President Theodore Roosevelt visited in 1903 and, with support from the Boone and Crockett club, which he had formed in 1887, he lobbied for the passage of the June 1906 Antiquities Act which gave the president the authority to create national monuments on federal lands to protect significant natural, cultural, or scientific features. He created the Grand Canyon Game Preserve in November and elevated its status to national monument in 1908. Woodrow Wilson made it into a national park in 1919.
Some 5-6 million years ago the Colorado river established its course in Arizona and began carving the 277-mi (446 km) Grand Canyon, which is 6,093 ft (1,857 m) deep and up to 18 mi (29 km) wide. Though inhabited by numerous Native American peoples for millennia, it was "discovered" by García López de Cárdenas y Figueroa, who travel to the "rio Tizon" in 1540; no Europeans reached the site again until 1776 when 2 priests, Francisco Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, sought a route from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to California. It was forgotten again until 1826, when James Ohio Pattie of Kentucky visited with trappers (2 years later his father became the 1st American to be buried in California). In 1858 Brigham Young sent Jacob Hamblin to rediscover the 1776 Crossing of the Fathers; Hamblin made many trips to the area and helped found Mormon settlements on the Little Colorado River south of the canyon; he was John Wesley Powell's liaison with the natives in 1870. Powell was the 1st to refer to the "Grand Canyon." President Theodore Roosevelt visited in 1903 and, with support from the Boone and Crockett club, which he had formed in 1887, he lobbied for the passage of the June 1906 Antiquities Act which gave the president the authority to create national monuments on federal lands to protect significant natural, cultural, or scientific features. He created the Grand Canyon Game Preserve in November and elevated its status to national monument in 1908. Woodrow Wilson made it into a national park in 1919.
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