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Norman D. Nevills' 1938 Green and Colorado Rivers expedition. Sixty-five feet above the river on portage job in Cataract Canyon, left to right, Don Harris, Gene Atkinson, and Norm Nevills.

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Title Norman D. Nevills' 1938 Green and Colorado Rivers expedition. Sixty-five feet above the river on portage job in Cataract Canyon, left to right, Don Harris, Gene Atkinson, and Norm Nevills.
Photo Number P0341n02_09_15
Description Photo shows one of the boats of … the 1938 Green and Colorado Rivers expedition, led by Norm Nevills, being portaged around a rapid in Cataract Canyon, Utah
Keywords Nevills Expeditions; River running; Journeys; Expeditions; Cataract Canyon (Wayne County-San Juan County, Utah); Cataract Canyon Wilderness (Utah); Men; Atkinson, W. Eugene; Zoologists; Nevills, Norman D., 1908-1949; Scouts and guides; River guides; Harris, (LaPhene) Don, 1911-2004; Boatmen; Cigarettes; Smoking; Pith helmets; Canyons; Rivers; Rapids; Fluvial landforms; Portages
Subject Nevills Expeditions--Photographs; Boats and boating--Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)--Photographs; Wooden boats--Photographs; Cataract Canyon (Utah)--Photographs
Additional Information The expedition started in Green River, Utah, on June 20, 1938 and ended at Lake Mead, Arizona on August 1, 1938. They reached the top of Cataract Canyon on June 23 and reached the bottom on July 2
Spatial Coverage Cataract Canyon (Wayne County-San Juan County, Utah); Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
Latitude 37.8775
Longitude -110.293889
Collection Number and Name P0341 Norman D. and Doris Nevills Photograph Collection
Collection Name Norman D. and Doris Nevills
Relation is Part of Utah River Running Archives
Date 1938-06-20; 1938-08-01
Textual Date June 20-August 1, 1938
Donated By/Purchased From Gift of daughters Joan Nevills-Staveley and Sandra Nevills Reiff in 1988.
Rights
Type Image
Finding Aid http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv17126/
ARK ark:/87278/s6j39j5s
Setname uum_map_rr
ID 1342246
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6j39j5s
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