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J.C. Ives Visits the Grand Canyon

by | May 10, 2016 | Uncategorized

Mollhausen's Sketch of the Grand Canyon
In early 1858, Lt. Joseph Christmas Ives of the Army Corps of Topographical Engineers commanded the first military vessel up the Colorado River. He took the little paddle-wheeler named the “Explorer,” all the way up to today’s Hoover Dam to check the navigability of the river. On the return voyage to Ft. Yuma he and his little band of surveyors, accompanied by the expedition


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