This is a video of the presentation Bryan Brown and I wrote and which won the 2019 Lee C. Albertson Award at the Grand Canyon History Symposium. Bryan is the presenter (and does a much better job than I could have.)
The Grand Canyon Conservancy Monograph Series “Celebrating 100 Years of Grand Canyon National Park. A Gathering of Grand Canyon Historians. Ideas, Arguments, and First Person Accounts” has just been published. It is a handsome publication (speaking as a graphic designer who has designed a book or two). It contains the Read more…
Lois and Steve Hirst, the 2016 Awardees, are shown here presenting the 2019 Lee Albertson Award for Best Presentation to Bryan Brown and Gary Cascio for their paper and presentation entitled “The Other Lee’s Ferry: The Historic River Crossing at Pearce Ferry, 1876 to 1938”. Their winning paper was one Read more…
My research buddy and I met up a couple of weekends ago at the site of what was Pearce’s Ferry on the Colorado River. Doing online research we found this old black and white photo of a ferry from the University of Las Vegas with a motor boat in the Read more…