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Nevills sitting in a fold-flat boat trailing two makeshift motorboats on the Colorado River at Moab

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Title: Nevills sitting in a fold-flat boat trailing two makeshift motorboats on the Colorado River at Moab
Date Created and/or Issued: 1938-09
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Otis Marston Colorado River Collection
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: 380999; MOAB; 2; Nevills had chartered the outfit for P. W. Tompkins with the plan to run to the mouth of the Green River where they hoped to meet the Holmstrom-Burg party. Nevills hoped for a share in the publicity. Tompkins considered the outfit so unseaworthy, he ordered them to turn back before reaching The Junction. [see original page for Times-Independent 1938, Sep. 29, short feature on Tompkins' trip]
Type: image
Extent: black & white photographic prints : 5x7
Identifier: V004/0064
206893
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll5/id/13801
Source: Papers of Otis R. Marston: Still images, 1870-1978.
vols. 1-40, Colorado River and tributaries (Headwaters to Lee's Ferry)
The Otis Marston Colorado River Collection

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