Rock Hounds and River Rats: The 1937 Carnegie-CalTech Grand Canyon Expedition – Prescott
Phippen Museum 4701 U.S. HWY 89N, Prescott
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In 1937, a group of CalTech geology professors and hardy boatmen set out in small wooden boats on a 6 week journey through the Grand Canyon to study the ancient rocks of the canyon’s Inner Gorge. At the time, fewer than a dozen river parties had successfully run the canyon – often with a loss […]