Manuscripts
019
- Description
"1960 - Jets - Print (Prints - Buzz[?] - Pug - Dock & Up 1960": 1960. Excess footage on the down and up runs of the Turbocraft jet boats through the Grand Canyon, including the accident to Austin. [entries: '"Miss Turbocraft"; Grand Canyon; rapidrunning; Lees Ferry; 1960 jetboat downrun; "Little Squirt"; Georgie White; inflatables; Dock Marston; Bill Austin injury; helicopter; Garth Marston; Lake Mead; 1960 jetboat uprun; Lava Falls Rapid?; sadirons; Mexican Hat Expeditions; Phantom Ranch; Grand Canyon; boat repairs; jetboats; J. Ballard Atherton?]
- Production date
- 1870-1978.
- Call number
- R135
- Additional description
- While the principal focus is the history of river-running, the collection also touches, often in depth and with original materials, on the geology of the entire region, the history of mining, water issues, hydroelectric power development, recreational use and policy issues, the history of transportation, the ecology of various riverine ecosystems, exploration, the film industry and promotion of the West, and indigenous cultures.
