Crawford, William Louis, 1873-1935; Parks -- Utah -- History; Zion National Park (Utah) -- History; Springdale (Utah) -- History; Rockville (Utah) -- History
WILLIAM LOUIS CRAWFORD DIARY
Explanation
William Louis Crawford was born on July 15, 1873, to William Robinson and Carnelia Gifford Crawford, in Rockville, Kane County, Utah. When he was six years old the family moved to Oak Creek in Zion...
Emery County (Utah), Huntington(Utah); High School; Dizzy Six; Girls Clubs
Dizzy Six was a group of popular girls at Huntington High School in the late 1920s. This photographs show four girls of the six who called themselves "The Dizzy Six." They were contemporaries and friends of Elmo Geary who graduated in 1931 from...
Emery County (Utah); Civilian Conservation Corps; CCC
A crew of young men and their leaders working on Ferron Mountain. There were 200 boys in that camp the first year and 47 married girls from Emery County. The Civilian Conservation Corps throughout the United States built 125,000 miles of roads,...
Emery County (Utah); Civilian Conservation Corps; Mortensen, Orlon; CCC
Orlon Mortensen's buddies from the CCC camp in Ferron are shown here. Most of the kids were from similar circumstances, so they made friends easily and had good times and great memories. They had weekends off. Most towns held Friday night dances,...
From Addie Wakefield Richards Collection. The Dizzie Six was a popular group of girls. Evidently there were at least two different groups of the Dizzy Six because there is another photograph labeled Dizzy Six with girls from a few years older.
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; School Field Trips; Rowley, Sammy; Stevens, Vonda; Stevens, Melva; Steicklman, Babe
Emery County schools often took the students on field trips to the San Rafael Swell or near by Cedar Mountain. These 14 year old girls are part of the ninth grade field trip to the desert in 1923.
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Swasey Family
A slide presentation was put together by Emery County on the Swasey History on the San Rafael Swell. This is Slide #12. "Even though the Swasey boys seemed wild to some, they all found girls to marry, raised families, and many of their descendants...
Glen Canyon (Utah and Ariz.); Rafting (Sports)--Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
everyone did, where they were from, who they were, how they stood state-wise, and what they looked like. The last two we could remember, but the rest had to be relearned at later meetings. As we paused in Provo, two cute girls in red bandana...
Glen Canyon (Utah and Ariz.); Rafting (Sports)--Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
boats; the girls now were acquiring the knack of rolling sleeping bags up small, and were even able to calm straggling hair. Suddenly shouts sent our glances toward the river where one of the rafts was being carried toward the center of the...
Glen Canyon (Utah and Ariz.); Rafting (Sports)--Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
With the "Shasta" tied securely, we shoved off into the constantly flowing river. A long and interesting day lay ahead of us. Just four miles downstream we made (or we should say four crews made) the landing at Smith Fork. A short hike through...
Glen Canyon (Utah and Ariz.); Rafting (Sports)--Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
woman who wished additional design on the walls of her home. Down the cliff a little ways a full-fledged dig was in process - a number of potsherds and pieces of siliceous minerals used for making arrow heads were found, and Dick actually picked up...
Glen Canyon (Utah and Ariz.); Rafting (Sports)--Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
Heartily digging into the sacks, we withdrew bread with sandwich spread or Vienna sausages between them. As consolation, however, there were cookies and finally raisins, which Ted especially liked.
And then the contest began. Lee Perry leaped...
Glen Canyon (Utah and Ariz.); Rafting (Sports)--Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
gentleman of the desert wearing among other things the
bottom half of the legs of a pair of old levis, ran to victory. Her position in the sports world was challenged only by Lee Perry, whose feet were sore, and by Merly, who actually bettered her...
Glen Canyon (Utah and Ariz.); Rafting (Sports)--Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
everybody to the dance. What a grand orchestra they were! John Farnsworth called the squares after we had gotten our partners during the round dancing and a Virginia reel. Stan turned out to be practically the best dancer there, and
lucky was the...
Glen Canyon (Utah and Ariz.); Rafting (Sports)--Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
up the dusty road, then turned and climbed over the low sloping rock to the left. Merly had tried to encourage everybody to make this hike, and strangely enough, about the same number went on this as had gone up to the top of the natural bridge. We...
Glen Canyon (Utah and Ariz.); Rafting (Sports)--Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
At Bryce Junction, about eight rats climbed into the truck and headed toward Salt Lake. The rest of us continued in the bus to Bryce Canyon, planning to arrive in Salt Lake the following day.
The trip to Salt Lake in the truck was a relatively...
Glen Canyon (Utah and Ariz.); Rafting (Sports)--Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
floor of the colorful, fanciful canyon. We observed manzanita (a sign of elevation and history of the area), and picked up a few fossil snails in some limestone. Dashing up switchbacks, we emerged at the rim of the canyon, having glimpsed into a...
Glen Canyon (Utah and Ariz.); Rafting (Sports)--Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
Cal Bears: Captain Steve Kovacich, 934 Avis Drive, El Cerrito, California, seemed to be a General Practitioner of desert life. He kept us informed in detail of the flora and fauna of the region and impressed us as well with his skill in climbing....