cañon

plural cañons · plural cañones

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of canyon.

   […]we walked some little distance up the cañon on the frozen river[…]

   1879, Arthur Pendarves Vivian, Wanderings in the western land

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   He was only proving what the sage-riders had long said of this labyrinthine system of deceitful cañons and valleys—trails led down into Deception Pass, but no rider had ever followed them.

   1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 5, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC

   Steadily it ascended toward the mountains, into which they filed through a narrow cañon close to noon.

   1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Numa ‘El Adrea’”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915, →OCLC, page 122

   The morning after this decision, I started up the cañon of Tenaya, caring little about the quantity of bread I carried; for, I thought, a fast and a storm and a difficult cañon were just the medicine I needed.

   1918, John Muir, “A Geologist's Winter Walk”, in Steep Trails

   the cañons and upland pine parks and snowy peaks and cliff dwellings round Flagstaff

   2010, Agnes C Laut, Through Our Unknown Southwest (Illustrated Edition), page 100