In the old days they used to say that anyone who visited the Grand Canyon and didn’t meet the great windjammer, Captain John Hance had missed an experience nearly as colorful at the canyon itself. Nobody knows why they called him captain; it just seemed to fit. For some twenty years He provided lying and lodging for the tourists. The dudes never knew just how much of Captain Hance’s stories to believe; shucks, he could paint a story redder’n a Navajo blanket.  He always led them down


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