Nevills Expeditions, Grand Canyon, November 1947; January-February 1948

File — Box: 1, Folder: 16

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

1: South Cave, Marble Canyon
2: Marble Canyon
3: "Lunch on a sandbar peanut butter, canned ham, jam, pickles, crackers and shoestring potatoes" {**}
4: Boats on shore
5: "Norman Nevills, skipper of the Colorado River expeditions, and Al Milotte, with the camera, were the author's companions in the veteran cataract boat Wen [SIC: should be WEN, initials of William E. Nevills] on the trip through Grand Canyon." {**}
6: "When the rapids looked bad, a landing was made above and the boatmen looked the water over and then went into a huddle to determine the best route through." {**}
7: "At Emory Falls the boatmen were able to row in and fill the canteens from the falling stream." {**}
8: "End of the journey. The cataract boats were towed from Pierce=s Ferry to Boulder City by a Park Service launch." {**}
9: "Norm Nevills shows how to run a rapid aboard NPS no. 1, Lake Mead. January 1948" [William Belknap, Jr.] {**}
10: Randall Henderson, editor, Desert Magazine [William Russell, Bureau of Reclamation, Boulder City, Nevada]
11: Camp on Lake Mead. [William Russell, Bureau of Reclamation, Boulder City, Nevada]
12: Joe Desloge, Jr; Otis "Dock" Marston; Margaret Marston on board boat JOAN, Lake Mead. [William Russell, Bureau of Reclamation, Boulder City, Nevada]
13: Group shot on Lake Mead. [William Belknap, Jr.]
14: Randall Henderson; Alfred M. Bailey, Lake Mead dock. [William Russell, Bureau of Reclamation, Boulder City, Nevada]
15: Al Milotte; Norm Nevills; Randall Henderson on board boat WEN. [William Russell, Bureau of Reclamation, Boulder City, Nevada]

Dates

November 1947; January-February 1948

Conditions Governing Access

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