Bass ad for Grand Canyon Stage Line
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Unknown Arizona Weekly Journal-Miner 1100-2022-5003.jpg Days Past B&W 1100-2022-5003 1100-2022-5003 Print 5x7 Media May 29, 1895 Reproduction rights are not available. Owned by another institution.Description
Example of Bass ad for an excursion to the Grand Canyon in the May 29, 1895 Arizona Weekly Journal-Miner.
William Wallace Bass was a renowned Grand Canyon guide. He and his future wife, Ada, met when Ada and her aunt decided to take one of W.W. Bass’s excursions in 1894. They paid $25 for the six-day adventure from Williams to the Canyon and back, accompanied by Miss Kate L. Heizer, Frank S. Emmal and Arizona Journal-Miner editor J. C. Martin.
The trip was well-documented by Martin in his articles in the Journal-Miner and by Ada’s composition “My First Trip to Grand Canyon.” The group traveled from Prescott to Williams by train on August 17. They stayed in a hotel that night and met Bass, owner of the Grand Canyon Stage Line, the next morning. He had improved a trail from Williams to the South Rim so they could travel in coaches in relative comfort.
Martin’s September 5, 1894, article stated that they traveled 32 miles the first day to Cataract Glen, where they planned to cross Cataract Creek. Instead of a dry creek bed, they encountered a raging torrent. When the water receded, they crossed safely and camped for the night.
Bass led the group to Supai Village where they met Havasupai Tribe members . In the September 12, 1894 Journal-Miner article, Martin wrote, “The trail leading to the village was fatiguing and dangerous, and yet we felt amply repaid for it all.” Martin also stated that seeing the Bridal Veil and Mooney Falls were “worth the trip there as they are magnificently grand.”
Image Courtesy of Arizona Weekly Journal-Miner.
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