nancoweap

Updated: August 10, 2026

On the right were two minor valleys within the canyon called Nancoweap and Kwagunt, named by Powell after the Pai Utes, who have trails coming down into them.* * Kwagunt was the name of a Pai Ute who said he owned this valley that his father, who used to live there, had given it to him.

Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh - The Romance of the Colorado River : The Story of its Discovery in 1840, with an Account of the Later Explorations, and with Special Reference to the Voyages of Powell through the Line of the Great Canyons