Bisbee daily review., 1903-01-03
BUCW 0'NEILL
 NAMED TRAIL
CAPTAIN RANCE TELLS WHY HE
 DID IT.

 Beautiful Girl, with Melancholy Ways
 Caused Trai, to Be Named Bright
 Angel.
 Many another visitor to that tre- nendous hole in the ground, the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, had wondered as. l dld, how the Bright Angel trail ever got such a name There is sort of .poetica,, romantic tinge to it, but when you come to think it over, there is,i't any sence to it. That's what lead me at first to think there was story behind it and set me to nosing around for Che story.
 About all the headway made was to learn that Buckey O'Neil gave it that name until found Capt Hance. Then l got the story.
 "Yaas, Buckley O'Neil gave it that name" he said, refiectively, splitting at the stove door.
 It was doubtful if the captain would proceed. Conditions had to be favor able for him 10 tell story. He liked large audiences. a dozen listeners at least, and I was the only one upon this occasion. But finally he spat at the stove door again and said: ''Tl tell ye how | was" Then l knew 1t was a go.
 We never cid know where she come from, nor how she got here, but all to once she was here, and 'peared like she'd come to stay. She was sicllly; you could see that, but she never com plained none; she was alters jest as doggone cheerful as 2 sunshinny morn fn'
 Cad, but she was beautiful. She had fluffy hair that was like streak q sunlight streamin, through windeI her skin was soft as velvet. and jest white and pink, and she didn't look like a person that was intended tC live on earth; leastwise in no such outlandish place as this.
 An the girl was jest as good as sae looked. I want t tell ye. Ine boys gil fell in love with her; Pete Berry aver at Grand View, ar Bass. down al the ferry an l guess I had sort o tender regard fer her myself.
 She ust | go down tn trail nisf on every day, walkin' slow and lookin at th' wonderful sights in tn canyoI with them big blue eyes, O hers, tha was like little patches of tn sky. Th' boys ust [ watch her standin' on thu rim, till she'd get t be nuthing' but ; tiny spec O bright color. movin' alon, tn trail. Sometimes there'd be moist uTe in Buc.Sey's eyes, an I dunno bu mine, too, when we was lookin' at her snd feelin' mabbe she wasn't goin' East long.
 'Bucky ust t say she was an angel he known she was, an he turned out 1 be right, fer one day she went dowl tn trail an never came back. Ther was a sort o'haze like hangin' in tn canyon that afternoon, an long abou sundown tn light struck it slantwis and colored it up like gold. Yol couldn't see fer into tn canyon, bu ISlcky clafm,ed Ee 4een sqmethini foatin' up through tn mist, white an sort O transparient like. but he know it was her.
 There wasn't no doubt about he bein' an angel after that. an so h named tn trail Bright Angel trail an that's how it come.
 'Ye see, Bucky was a sentimenta Teller, anyhow. natcherly au we'd bil 2rca lin her tn Bright Girl after VI found out twas Bright's disease tha sfled her, so Buckley says: We'll mak il Bright Angel"
 That Was the way I got the stor From Captain Ha1ee, but later, whe, [ found that he claimed to be the ma who made the Grand Canyon, I didn' know whether to believe him or not ". c. HogeboOm, in Los Angeles Hel aid.