1879, Arthur Pendarves Vivian, Wanderings in the western land...we walked some little distance up the cañon on the frozen river...
Grey Riders|5He was only proving what the sage-riders had long said of this labyrinthine system of deceitful cañons and valleys—trails led down into Deception Pass, but no rider had ever followed them.
2010, Agnes C Laut, Through Our Unknown Southwest (Illustrated Edition) (page 100)the cañons and upland pine parks and snowy peaks and cliff dwellings round Flagstaff