The Kolb Brothers Pioneering Landscape Photographers
Introduction The men must have felt some relief as they climbed up out of Separation Canyon. Leaving behind the tension of the expedition and the foreboding of that dark thundering canyon; constantly wet, cold and afraid. Now they move through the forest on the canyon rim and come face-to-face with what must they have thought of as savages. Weaponless and white they were set upon as retribution for some earlier atrocity on the tribe and quickly dispatched. Thus ended the journey for these men in 1869, some of the first white men to explore the Green and Colorado Rivers, John Wesley Powell and the rest of the expedition had carried on after leaving these men to their fates and completed the journey exiting the Grand Canyon near the Virgin River where Lake Meade is today. Really there was not that much further to go for the three lost men, but at the time nobody knew what was ahead. The perils of being first. Not many years later and many fewer expeditions down the Green ...