The Washington weekly post., 1900-03-13
EARLY AMERICAN GIANTS.
Reason. for BeIievinE that Race Of 10
footers Lived in Arizona

Prom the Prescott Prospect.
Does anybody believe that there ever
has been a race Of giants IN the world?
Does anybody believe that a race Of 81
cdntic men. who were from = 70 - feet
high. ever lived I'm these United States OF
America? Apd yet the proof that such a
race of people did live in this country Is to
te found IN the Grand Canyon OF the
Colorado River In Northern Arizona. This
proof consists Of. FIRST: Footprints in the
red sandstone. Footprints that appear 10
have been made BY the moccasiHed feet Of
gigantic men. Men whose tracks meas
Ured twenty inches IN length and VINO
stepped FIVE feet al a stride.
The second proof is that there IS the pet
Tihed body OF such a man, likewise IN The
red sandstone OF the Grand Canyon dis
trict. This body was that OF a living.
breathing man. but after death the hesl
was replaced by lime Of silica. held in
solution in the water. There Is ample eyi-
dence that nature was able 10 perform
this feat, as the petrifying process IS De-
ing carried on IN the canyon 10 this day.
The third fact is that there IS and was a
strong and almost universal tradition
among the ancient people OF Mexico and
Peru that such d race OF giants lived IN
their country.
Perhaps II is almost too much to call
this proof. but 1t is at least cQrroborative
testimony
Last June | visited the Grand CANYON as
tourist VIA the Atlantic and Pacific Rail-
road TO Flagstaff, thence by stage seventy
miles 10 the Hance trail on the brink Of
the gorge. There / met Mr. Hull. who was
/ acting as guide into the canyon and who
vas a pioneer of Northern Arizona. He
told me the following story, and. with
/ apologies for my credulity. believe him
Three years ago he and a companion
named Jim Laveile had been prospecting
in this part Of the country. They found q
| ledge which they thought was valuable
and had started out Of the canyon witt
/ samples Of the ore, expecting 10 return il
( few days. one Of the Indians was with
/ them. Mr.. Hull speaks the Indian Ian.
( guage tuently and the Indians have .
great admiration for him. The Indian sail
| Have YOU ever seen the big Indian w
/ here voiunt eariGG to show il. The fol
/ lowed him up a foot trail which lei
/ through CreNiCc in the red wall, tnCuc.
| IN to the bench-like formation above. bat
I still in the midst Of the red sandstone
! They came 20 a place where a projecting
. rock formed a shelter over sioping II.
ble-like slab Of stone which was covere5
Z with white lncruStatIOn Of lime. Out
/ stretched on this slab vas the body of 2
+ gigantic man turned into stone The bod,
was entirely nude and law face dow wa j
( They estimated his height to be eighJeeT
I or twenty feet. The left arm was out al
full length, while the right arm. was dou.
I bled under his head. The left was perfect
/ but the foot was ilmme1 into a crack il
/ the slab. The right leg was broken Oh
/ Just below the knee. and the broken pa r,
was missing. They looked at il zen or fif,
teen minutes, and then continued theil
/ journey, intending TO return and make d
more complete nyes,ig tiOn Plans chang.
ed and they failed 10 return.
/ Mr.. Hull told the story 10 several people
! hut they either ~ BELIEVED uim or Sour.
1 aged him. so il happened hat ne had new.
( er been back there, and that he had new.
/ er tried TO do anything with his d overy
/ He also told me that reliable Indians
Z had described TO him tracks Of both mar
! and an mails in the sold rock not far from
l tins body and I'm the same formation
/ These he had never seen, but he had n
doubt of their existence.
| This was star ling information, but
had been in a measure PREPARED for Il. II
/ the first place 1t had always seemed rea
| sOnable TO me that the prehistoric Trime
| val hunting SaVages should have bean o
large stature. Geology ,ells US that Their,
was "A period in the history Of the worli
called the tertiary or mamma ian az,
that was peculiarly favorable to anima
life IL is the age Of the mammoth. tn
| great cave bear, the cave lion, the WOO i
! rhinOceros, the primeval OK, the or a
Irish elk, the gigantic slOths and Othe
familiar an mails, that were far lar er IN =
than now. Was man 10 be left out entire
ly amid all this list of giants?