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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P13_nathaniel-galloway-1890s_Green-River-WY.html
A sometime trapper and prospector from Vernal, Utah, Nathaniel "Than" Galloway revolutionized river travel on the Green and all other western rivers. Galloway was convinced that both beaver and gold could be found in the canyons of the Green River…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P12_john-wesley-powell-1871_Green-River-WY.html
Even before the end of the 1869 voyage, Powell knew he had to return to the river. The news of Powell's first expedition of 1869 captured the nation's imagination and admiration; and also helped persuade Congress to appropriate $10,000 for the sec…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P0P_sunbeam-1908_Green-River-WY.html
J.F. Moerke, Frank Briggs, M.C. Peterson and C.W. Johnson, the owners of the amusement park on Island Park, purchased the "Sunbeam" and a companion craft, the "Teddy R", in 1908. These were stern-wheeler, gasoline-propelled motor launches which we…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P0O_george-flavell_Green-River-WY.html
Trapper, hunter, prospector, and tattoo artist - George Flavell and his passenger/partner Ramon Montez were the first men to float the "distance" of Green River, Wyoming to Needles, California primarily for the "adventure."
The two arrived in …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P09_the-damsite-surveys_Green-River-WY.html
The search for "practical" uses of the canyons of the upper Green River had been on since the turn of the century. In 1914, a U.S. Geologic Survey expedition led by Eugene LaRue floated to the Utah border and noted several damsites in the Flaming …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P08_kolb-brothers_Green-River-WY.html
Ellsworth and Emery Kolb were photographers with a studio on the south rim of the Grand Canyon. They wanted to make a complete photographic record of the canyons of the Green and Colorado rivers, and thus decided to run the rivers themselves.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P07_julius-stone_Green-River-WY.html
An Ohio millionaire and no stranger to the river, Julius Stone wanted to duplicate Major Powell's run down the Green and Colorado Rivers. Stone even went to Washington to meet with the aging Powell. Major Powell, however, was jealous of his achiev…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P00_norm-nevills-a-k-reynolds-1940s_Green-River-WY.html
Norman D. Nevills took his first major voyage in 1938, floating from Green River, Utah, through the Grand Canyon. This journey included the first woman ever to float Cataract and Grand Canyons.
In 1940, Nevills decided to float from Green River…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OZZ_the-french-trio-1938_Green-River-WY.html
In September 1938 on the eve of World War II, three young people from France came to southwest Wyoming for a trip down the Green River.
Bernard and Genevieve LeColmont were married in Paris on August 1, 1938, and the trip to America to run the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OZY_buzz-holstrom_Green-River-WY.html
Haldane "Buzz" Holstrom wanted to float the Green and Colorado Rivers to Hoover Dam. In the fall of 1937, he found the "right cedar tree" near his home in Oregon and built his own 16-foot Galloway-style riverboat.
A friend who was supposed to …