The above sketch sufficiently discloses the salient characteristic of Norris' career. His life was that of the pioneer, and was spent in dealing first blows in the subjugation of a primeval wilderness. He was "blazing trails," literally and figuratively, all his days, leaving to others the building of the finished highway. It is therefore not surprising that his work lacks the element of completeness, which comes only from patient attention to details. Nowhere is this defect more apparent than in his writings. A distinct literary talent, and something of the poet's inspiration, were, to use his own words, "well nigh strangled" by the "stern realities of border life." His prose abounds in aggregations of more than one hundred words between periods, so ill arranged and barbarously punctuated as utterly to bewilder the reader. His verse--we have searched in vain for a single quatrain that would justify reproduction. Nevertheless, his writings, like his works, were always to some good purpose. They contained much useful information, and, being widely read throughout the West, had a large and beneficial influence. Perhaps no better or more generous estimate of his character can be found than in the following words of Mr. Langford who knew him well: "He was a good man, a true man, faithful to his friends, of very kind heart, grateful for kindnesses, of more than ordinary personal courage, rather vain of his poetical genius, and fond of perpetuating his name in prominent features of scenery." Concerning which last characteristic it may be noted that three mountain peaks, one geyser basin, one pass, and an uncertain number of other features of the Park, were thought by Colonel Norris deserving of this distinction. With inimitable fidelity to this trait of his character, he had even selected as his final resting-place the beautiful open glade on the south side of the Grand Cañon, just below the Lower Falls. _Observation Peak_ (9,300)--G: 8--1885--U. S. G. S.--Characteristic. _Obsidian Cliff_ (7,800)--F: 6--1878--Norris--Characteristic. _Paint Pot Hill_ (7,900)--H: 6--1885--U. S. G. S.--Characteristic. _Pelican Cone_ (9,580)--I: 12--1885--U. S. G. S.--Near source of Pelican Creek. _Pilot Knob_ (11,977)--C: 16--See "Index Peak." _Piñon Peak_ (9,600)--S: 10--1885--U. S. G. S.--Characteristic. _Prospect Peak_ (9,300)--D-E: 8--1885--U. S. G. S.--Characteristic. _Pyramid Peak_ (10,300)--J: 14--1895--U. S. G. S.--Characteristic. _Quadrant Mountain_ (10,200)--D: 4--1878--U. S. G. S.--Characteristic. _Red Mountain Range_--P: 7-8--U. S. G. S.--Characteristic. _Reservation Peak_ (10,600)--M: 14--1895--U. S. G. S.--Characteristic. _Roaring Mountain_ (8,000)--F: 6--1885--U. S. G. S.--"It takes its name from the shrill, penetrating sound of the steam constantly escaping from one or more vents near the summit."--Hague. _Saddle Mountain_ (11,100)--H: 15--1880--Norris--Characteristic.