Resources for further research
Resources
The Marriott Library hosts over 4,500 historical photographs of Glen Canyon.
Crampton, C. Gregory, Ghosts of Glen Canyon: history beneath Lake Powell (Bonneville Books, 2009)
Fowler, Don D. The Glen Canyon country: a personal memoir (University of Utah Press, 2011).
Martin, Russell, A Story that Stands Like a Dam: Glen Canyon & the struggle for the soul of the West (University of Utah Press, 2017).
Porter, Eliot, The place no one knew: Glen Canyon on the Colorado (Sierra Club Books, 1966)
Powell, John Wesley, Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and its tributaries, explored in 1869, 1870, 1871, and 1872. Available through the Digital Library at: https://collections.lib.utah.edu/details?id=318677
Digital Collections
Marriott Library’s Multimedia Archives Photo collections on river running:
- Arthur Crawford
- William Dawson
- Mary Armstrong Milligan
- Marjorie G. Paul
- A. Oscar Olson
- William C. Bradley
- Gus Scott Photograph Collection
- George Barfoot
- Hatch River Expeditions Photograph Collection
- Alvin Colville
- Norman D. and Doris Nevills
- John Stockert (includes some from Glen Canyon Dam construction era)
- Bruce Berger Photograph Collection
- Robert W. Inscore Photograph Collection
- Dr. Aaron Belnap Ross
- Frederick Hoffman Wood Photograph Collection
- Ray Bramble Photograph Collection
- Grace Fites
- Charles Eggert
- Howard Foulger
- Glen Canyon Archaeological Survey
- Galloway-Stone Expedition
- Bill Wolverton
Music Temple visitor’s register (removed from Glen Canyon and donated to the Marriott Library)
Oral Histories
Oral histories of river runners and guides of the Colorado River:
- Don Hatch
- Nancy Streator Reuling
- Katie Lee
- Don Harris
- Gaylord Staveley
- Kenneth Sleight
- Bret Wojciak, Micah Renfeldt, and Christian Dean
Other Resources Online
- A PDF on historical sites along the Colorado River
- Photograph album of John Wesley Powell’s Second Colorado River. Available from the Yale University Library’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
- An online exhibit of photos of Glen Canyon in 1962 on the “Explore Portland” website maintained by Phil and Keturah Pennington
- Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff also has a large collection related to the Colorado Plateau, including a growing digital library.
See featured topics at: https://nau.edu/special-collections/topics/
A research guide on Glen Canyon resources
Credits
Exhibit created by Ken Rockwell, and adapted for OmekaS by Anna Neatrour and Rachel Wittmann
This exhibit was published in 2018