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 |
Trilobites |
Identifier |
039RM |
Subject |
Fossils; Mountains |
Description |
Eminent geologists of leading U.S. Universities and of England and Japan have visited Millard County's fossil beds. |
OCR Text |
Show morntng of evelving life fis reneins are amonc the very fizst of aifferentiated fossil animal life Thus 1illard county that present sparsely settled deaert areg on the edge of the Sevier Desert was once teemingly Populated withlowly forn of life in some Tegions where most prolific with that congestion which today is reashed only in Utenbigger ofties at the time when the Sevier Desert Delta included was unier he weters of ancicnt Lake Bomneville whe the sise of the Delta postoffice was under 902 feot of mater as today meamred from the station at Saltair when lavas flomed before duwring ani Efter that water that tine was but ryesterday afteroont the time seale back to the Temote Trilobite Butnent geologists of the leading universities and institutions of the nation and even of Emgland end Jzpan have visited this ar for swdy purposes and taken as prized oxhibits speotens of this lowly merine bug for study of classes in the solence of geology as tie distribution of the Trilobite was world wide including meny perts of the United States Menohuria Norway and practically all ov the globe and uillard Countyspecies ere typical of the forns which characterize the Cambrien era give ittime soale nd set the ingof seiense usonpartiouler and sarly hour on the dial of Natursvast Glook of Lif 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 |
125411 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6t75cnb/125411 |