Eldorado Canyon was first home to the ancient Ancient Puebloan Indians, they were intruded upon in 1775, when the Spaniards arrived in the canyon in their constant quest for gold. Founding a small settlement at the mouth of the Colorado River, they called it
Eldorado. Seventy-five years later, in the 1850s, a new breed of prospectors began sluicing the many streams feeding into the Colorado River the mining died out so the miners left everything and headed south into Arizona and even left their dog and there dogs died there at the caves and now this is what they called the hell-hounds.
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