six in the morning
We rode like sixty all next day , and camped only fifteen miles from Death River . We found the bones of Garth 's horse on the way -- picked clean ; and the note he left every place he camped . You ought to have heard Jim Plaskett crack up Garth 's pluck -- and Jim knows ! `` We reached the canyon about half-past six in the morning . I 'd heard of that place from the Indians . Say , it was a fearsome spot ! a kind of crooked , gaping split in the prairie like the pictures in Dante 's Inferno .