RRA. River Running Archives (S.J. Quinney Outdoor Recreation Archives)
Found in 75 Collections and/or Records:
SOCOTWA (South Cottonwood Ward) collection
Antoine de Seynes papers
The Antoine de Seynes papers (1938) contain materials documenting a French expedition kayak trip down the Colorado River. Included are correspondence, journals, articles, and a poem. Most of the materials are in French.
Albert "Bert" and Rachel Jamison Loper papers
John L. Cross papers
The John L. Cross papers (1994) contain patches and an autobiography entitled Just One More River-To Cross.
River running photograph collection
The River Running photograph collection contains photographs of river running scenes, including portraits of various individuals involved in river running. Includes a photograph of the John Wesley Powell expedition (1871).
John Weisheit photograph collection
John Weisheit (1954-) is a Colorado river guide, writer, speaker, and advocate for river restoration. This collection contains copy prints of Colorado River history and photograph prints of trips down the river guided by Bert Loper and Georgie White.
Elbert M. Dansie digital photograph collection
The Elbert M. Dansie digital photograph collection consists of images documenting a 1948 trip down the Colorado River.
Clyde Eddy book
The Clyde Eddy book (1929) is entitled Down the World's Most Dangerous River and contains marginalia written by Mary Virginia Carey. This book was gifted to Mary by her brother Vincent who took part in the Eddy Colorado River expedition. Included in the collection is a typescript of the marginalia located within the book.
John Frank Wright photograph collection
The John Frank Wright photograph collection contains images of Glen Canyon and southern Utah taken by J. Frank Wright.
Ralf R. Woolley photograph collection
Music Temple visitors registers
The Music Temple visitors registers (1938-1961) consists of notebooks, notepads, and miscellaneous scraps of paper upon which were written names and (usually) dates of members of river parties who stopped at Music Temple in Glen Canyon of the Colorado River before its inundation by Lake Powell in the 1960s.
Green River Mining and Improvement Company records [photocopies]
The Green River Mining and Improvement Company records (1895-1896) consist of photocopies of documents from several companies formed in the late nineteenth century. Their purpose was to exploit the resources to be found in the area of the lower Green and Grand (renamed the Colorado in 1921) Rivers. Included are stock certificates, certificates of incorporation, letters, and a prospectus.
Harry L. Aleson papers
Frederick Hoffman Wood papers
The Frederick Hoffman Wood papers (1950s-1960s) consist of a diary and loose diary pages, correspondence, clippings, brochures, and other materials that document his participation in the 1955-1956 Eggert-Hatch Expedition. The expedition was a river trip down the Green and Colorado Rivers with the purpose of making a complete film record of the river canyons before the great dams at Flaming Gorge and Glen Canyon were built.
Leslie A. Jones papers
The Leslie A. Jones papers (1963-1995) contain interviews, a chronology, river running accounts, and a river runner journal. Leslie A. Jones is a civil engineer in Salt Lake City, Utah who has been active as a river runner for many years. He has also made several contributions to canoe and kayak design.
Lloyd M. Pierson papers
The Lloyd M. Pierson papers (1998) consist of reminiscences of an archeological survey trip through Glen Canyon
Aaron Belnap Ross papers
The Aaron Belnap Ross papers (1857-1971) consists of poetry, clippings, journals, and biographical sketches of Dr. Ross, mainly as they pertain to his interest in river running on the Green, Colorado, and other rivers of the western United States.
John Weisheit papers
The John Weisheit papers (1871-1992) contain a copy of a manuscript for a book on Cataract Canyon, as well as research materials related to Cataract Canyon, the Grand Canyon, the Green River, and other notable Western rivers. John Weisheit is a wilderness guide for Tag-A-Long Expeditions. He also serves on non-profit boards such as the Canyonlands Field Institute and the Colorado Plateau River Guides.
George Barfoot papers
The George Barfoot papers (1962-1999) consists of a journal and a letter. The journal is the record of a trip through Glen Canyon, on the Colorado River in 1962. The first part is handwritten and the second is a typed transcript of the first. The letter was written in 1999 by Michael St. Clair to Dr. Richard Ingebretsen, of the Glen Canyon Institute.
Fred T. Darvill personal narrative
The Fred T. Darvill personal narrative (1959) is the recollection of Darvill's (b. 1927) river trip down the Colorado River and a rock climb up Rainbow Bridge later in the same year.