Title |
Rejected Manuscripts |
Identifier |
rejected.xml |
Subject |
Fossils--Utah; Paleontology--Utah; Mountains--Utah; Natural bridges--Utah--Canyonlands National Park; Millard County (Utah)--History |
Description |
A binder of manuscripts by Frank A. Beckwith that had been rejected by editors. They include: "Wings and bouncing echoes scout for oil," about prospecting for oil fields in the area around Delta, Millard County, Utah; "Scientists on the desert," a two-part article about a paleontology expedition in 1930 that included Frank Beckwith and Dr. Charles E. Resser, Smithsonian curator, and Dr. Riuji Endo, Japaniese geologist, which also includes another episode involving Beckwith and his friend Charles Kelly; "Fruita Natural Bridge (Pai-Soka) as seen from an airplane," which describes an aerial photograph Beckwith took; "Small fossils in Millard County," about Cambrian-era trilobites; and "Millard County's very own 'lost Spanish mine'." Each is accompanied by the rejection letter. Also here is included a published article by Charles Kelly entitled, "Historical highways: old trapper relates difficulties of travel between Ogden and Salt Lake in early days--Four killed near Farmington," printed in "Scenic Utah Motorist" magazine |
Personal Names |
Beckwith, Frank Asahel, 1876-1951; Resser, Charles Elmer, 1889-1943; Endo, Ruiji; Kelly, Charles, 1889-1971 |
Spatial Coverage |
Millard County (Utah); Canyonlands National Park (Utah) |
Creator |
Beckwith, Frank Asahel, 1876-1951; Kelly, Charles, 1889-1971 |
Publisher |
Hosted by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
Type |
Text |
Format |
application/pdf |
Source |
Rejected manuscripts |
Language |
eng |
Rights Management |
Digital image copyright 2003, Beckwith Family. All rights reserved |
Holding Institution |
Delta City Library |
Source Material |
Scrapbook |
Source Physical Dimensions |
26cm x 33cm |
ARK |
ark:/87278/s6t75cnb |
Setname |
dc_bpc |
ID |
126243 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6t75cnb |
Title |
Rejected Manuscripts bouncing echoes |
Identifier |
004RM |
Subject |
Mountains; Geology |
Description |
"Maybe the echoes would say, "'Aw nuts.'" |
OCR Text |
Show iy echo wonld whang back and gossip about its trip likequilting bee in full spate Notdetail would be lost and leave Or up ad Pull nuts Aw say would echoes Maybe the maybe they would bring backtale Hard strata down there 2389 feet dome aped --- Chart it Study it Correlate all the gossip For bouncing echoes prod into the past geologic record probe 1t and come back chock full of gossip of things hidden Character assassins No detail of the past these lively talkers dondrag to the surface and tell all aboue Wy land sk es alive there 1sdome down there at 1100 feet wearingbiled siirt front mpervios strata and sure as can be hehiding something under 14os better look into thatl And look mext year the crew will with dlamond arille Unlike some gossips there is no malice in their finding-the bouncing echoes tell good as well as ill Following the seismograph crew by some months two oil scouts fromrival company came to my office and inquired Can you pilot ue inplane to Triassic formtions then to older but no Cambrian all of them fres from granite lava and faulting Yes know of such formations we etll call for you in the morming Out we went in the plane headed westward On the vay woon sald Those are the Granite Mountains Donwat em Over the House Rangesaid ALl thie is Lower and Upper Cambrian shake of the head Wuartszite underliesand bl faulting Appreaching the Confueion Range rather high up said ALl Triassic on the ea slope of that great arc of mountain the mountaln itself largelyhuge anticline topped with Peraian and Mississippian iithin the mountainsmaller anticline with considerable up-tilting of strata Digital image 2004 Beckwith Family Al rights reserved |
Spatial Coverage |
Millard County (Utah) |
Creator |
Beckwith, Frank Asahel, 1876-1951 |
Type |
Image |
Format |
application/pdf |
Format Creation |
image/tiff |
Source |
Rejected Manuscripts |
Relation |
Frank Asahel Beckwith Collection |
Coverage |
Utah |
Archival Resolution |
Archival TIFF: 3000 x 4600 |
Low Resolution |
JPEG: 800 x 600 |
Bit Depth |
8-bit |
Scanning Device |
Creo-Scitex Eversmart Jazz+ flatbed scanner |
Setname |
dc_bpc |
ID |
125279 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6t75cnb/125279 |