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Glen Canyon (Utah and Ariz.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

Harry L. Aleson papers

 Collection
Identifier: ACCN 1435
Abstract The Harry L. Aleson papers (1966-1993) contains a master thesis from the University of Redlands, California, by Martin Clark Powell titled, A Study and Historical Analysis of the Document "The Trail of Hosteen Pish La Ki for Sixty Snows." The thesis includes comments and criticism from Mr. Aleson (1899-1972) a prominent Colorado River boatman. Mr. Powell's thesis analyzed an autobiographical poem by Cass Hite (1845-1914), a prospector and miner in the...
Dates: 1966-1993

Arthur L. Chaffin papers

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Identifier: ACCN 1638
Abstract The Arthur L. Chaffin papers (circa 1920-1976) contains correspondence, financial records, mining documents, and other records concerning Chaffin's owning and operating of the Chaffin Ferry and his mining career. Arthur L. Chaffin operated the ferry across the Colorado River at Hite, Utah until the site was covered by Lake Powell in the 1960s. He was also extensively involved in mining in southeastern Utah.
Dates: 1920-1976

Seville Flowers photograph collection

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Identifier: P1778
Abstract Seville (Bill) Flowers (1900-1968) was a Professor of Botany at the University of Utah from 1936 until his death in 1968. This collection contains an image of Seville Flowers and Walter Cottam in the field and 304 color slides of Flowers' University of Utah field trips, Colorado River by air, Glen Canyon ecological survey, and copies of plates from Flowers' monographs.
Dates: circa 1935-1965

William R. Halliday papers

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Identifier: ACCN 1458
Abstract The William R. Halliday papers (1960) contain correspondence regarding the geological features of the Glen Canyon reservoir area. Included are letters between Senator Henry Jackson and Fred G. Aandhal (Secretary of the Interior), Aandhal and John Hazle (president, The Mountaineers), and Hazle and William R. Halliday. Also included is an "Index to Glen Canyon Files."
Dates: 1960

LaPhene "Don" Harris papers

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Identifier: ACCN 2881
Abstract The LaPhene "Don" Harris papers (1938-1998) consist of his diaries of boat trips, as well as a dairy written by Mary Beckwith, in which Harris was a boatmen on the journey to Glen Canyon. Also included are two interviews by Roy Webb and Gary Topping and Linda Thatcher. Don "River Rat" Harris gained his Civil Engineering degree at U.S.U. and has been piloting boats down the Colorado as a commercial guide since 1938, starting Harris-Brennan River Expeditions (one of the first three commercial...
Dates: 1938-1998

Hite Ferry dedication booklets

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Identifier: ACCN 0977
Abstract The Hite Ferry booklet (1946) documents the dedication of newly developed roads that lead into Hite, Utah. Several individuals spoke at the dedication including; E. P. Pectol (the County Commissioner of Wayne County), Zeke Johnson, Bishop John D. Rogers, J. M. Adams, Wayne Wonderland, M. C. Moffit, Gordon T. Hyde, Arthur L. Crawford, Bishop Martin Guyom, and Governor Herbert B. Maw.
Dates: 1946 September 17

Jennings, Jesse D. archaeological video collection

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Identifier: A0550
Abstract The Jennings, Jesse D. archaeological video collection (1957-1988) consists of two sents of videos produced by prominent University of Utah archaeologist and anthropologist Jesse Jennings: the archeological survey of Glen Canyon before it was flooded by Glen Canyon dam (1957-1959), and a recording of his popular course "Tabletop Archaeology" (1988).
Dates: 1957-1988

Norman D. and Doris Nevills audio-visual collection

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Identifier: A0245
Abstract The Norman D. and Doris Nevills audio-visual collection consists of films produced by the Nevills family with their river running company Nevills Expeditions and home movies. Some of the collection is digitized and available in the Digital Library.
Dates: 1938-1973

Norman D. and Doris Nevills papers

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Identifier: MS 0552
Abstract The Norman D. and Doris Nevills papers (1890s-1952) constitute one of the finest and most comprehensive collections of original research materials on the history of travel on the Colorado and Green Rivers and their tributaries. Included are correspondence, diaries, logs, subject files, news clippings, and business records. Norman Nevills (1909-1949), supported by his wife Doris, was one of the pioneers of commercial river running.
Dates: 1890s-1952

William E. Rice papers

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Identifier: ACCN 2174
Abstract The William E. Rice papers (1946) contain the Hite booklet, one of 200 souvenir copies commemorating the dedication ceremony of a ferry crossing for the Colorado River at Hite, Utah.
Dates: 1946