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 Read more…
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 Read more…
Albuquerque Weekly Citizen (Albuquerque, New Mexico 25, Apr 1891 (Saturday) Except from an article on page 4 “The above is the simple marriage announcement let at THE CITIZEN office by Rev. Menual; but the reporter learns a very pleasant romance 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 Read more…
Even though we are currently focussed on preparing our paper on the Pearce Ferry for the Grand Canyon History Symposium in February, research continues for other locations. Case in point: Embudo, New Mexico First, a little history of Embudo courtesy 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 Read more…
Recently, the Palace of the Governors Photo Archives Facebook page published this photo. Intrigued by a ferry located close enough to our research area, I did a little investigating and found out the following. “In that early period, wagon Read more…
Monday, November 28 at 6 PM – 8 PMHotel Santa Fe, The Hacienda & Spa1501 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501Presentation summary: When most towns and villages in the Southwest were founded, they were oriented according to the rivers that were located Read more…
From Popular Science Monthly. Vol 88. Jan-Jun 1916″Operating a Stage under Difficulties”Operating a stage line is not all that it’s cracked up to be when the line happens to be in certain parts of New Mexico. The illustration shows one Read more…
While doing some work for the National Park Service last week at Island Park in Dinosaur National Monument, I happened to meet up with a retired gentleman named Ron Hatch. He lives in Vernal, but said he was born in Read more…