Chapter 100
In 1779, two Spaniards and six Indians had passed this way and found the same passage through the sawtooth peaks Miles intended to use. They'd worked their way north and east from the same route Father Escalante's larger party had taken three years earlier in his exploration of the American southwest, searching for the elusive El Dorado Pueblo Indians assured them was up here somewhere. Impressed, the Spaniards had even taken it upon themselves to name the serrated ridge. Miles plodded on, his legs so exhausted he could barely feel them. With consideration made for changes in idiom and culture, the name they bestowed on the rock formation could be translated as the 'Devil's Backbone'. In their arrogance, the minor Spanish noblemen would have been affronted to know Miles used exactly the s
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