"Canebrake" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... miles farther on, they went through a small canyon where another range is severed. This was called Purple Hill Pass, while the first one was named Explorer's Pass, after the steamer. The first approach to a real canyon was encountered a short distance above. Emerging from this, called Canebrake, from some canes growing along the sides, the Explorer ran aground, resting there for two hours. They had now passed through the Chocolate Mountains, the same range that Alarcon mentions, and as he records no other ...
— The Romance of the Colorado River • Frederick S. Dellenbaugh |
