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Show 1080 investigation did you make prior to the publishing or the writing and publishing of that book?" R. 2561 " MR. FRANSECRTH: In view of what your Honor has said, I do not wish to press my objection to this question. " A. On the historical side. I read everything I could in any way lay hands on concerning the early explorations of the river from the time of Alaroon, the Spanish navigator, down to the year of publication". R. 2564 He read the best available source of every character, " and, I was about to explain, I was greatly sided in the season by the existence in the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles of a library of Arizona, 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 then. 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 Voyagers who have not 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. |