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Show 4546 Freeman- D 2565 A The actual document, sir? No, I did not. Q I mean the source or a translation of it. A The best available source of every character I did read, and I was about to explain, I was greatly sided in the search by the existence in the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles of a library of Arizonia, which had been collected over a long period of years, and covering not only material on Arizona, but the southwest and the west generally, a great many books that would have been available to me only after a very long search through scattered libraries. These were all concentrated there. This even ran to earlier magazine articles I had never heard of, concerning Powell's voyage in the 70' s; I read all of them. I entered into correspondence with every living man that I could learn of who had voyaged on the river, in checking the Powell voyage or the Stanton. I regret very much I missed several of the voyageurs who have now been brought out to this trial, but Mr. Dellenbaugh of the Powell voyage wrote me a dozen letters or more with a great deal of information. Of especial use was Julius Stone, of Columbus, Ohio, and some of the Stanton records in New York which I had access to through the courtesy of his daughter, Anna Stanton Burchard. Generally, I might say every available source which I believed to be authentic was consulted in the restricted time I |