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Show Science. Award Academy Award to Dr. Herbert E. Gregory In that colorful maze of canyons and plateaus of southern Utah and northern Arizona, the white man inherited from the Indian a knowledge of some of the main routes by means of which the maze could be threaded. This knowledge was supplemented by explorations of Mormon frontiersmen and government explorers who added a great deal to the general picture and understanding of the region. It remained for the work of a scientist, however, to fill in the details of the picture. This man, busy with international scientific affairs has nevertheless found time during his busy career to explore and study nearly every major physiographic feature of that much dissected region and analyze the geological foundation and the factors of erosion which produced the physi ography. This man was very unostentatious in his work. A cowpuncher in the uninhabited wilds of the Colorado River side canyons in southern Utah was getting breakfast one morning when he heard tapping at a ledge on a nearby hillside and looking up saw a man with a small pick puttering around the ledge. He called, "Mr. prospector, breakfast is ready." a The man came down, joined him at breakfast, talked about cattle and trails, but not of himself; then disappeared into the canyons. It was many years later that the cowpuncher found him . xxi |
