Marriot Library Photographs LogoUtah Westerners Photograph Collection
P0621

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Summary Description
Title:Utah Westerners Photograph Collection
Collector:Jack Shapiro and Hal Schindler
Repository:J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Extent:280 Items
Identification:P0621
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Scope and Content
Collection is primarily documentation of club trips to various historical/notable monuments in the western United States. Mostly locations immediate to Salt Lake City. Collection is made up entirely of 3 x 5" color photographs. 35mm negatives at this time are being stored in folders matching groups of photographs.


Administrative Information
Restrictions : Materials must be used on-site; advance notice suggested. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.
Related Material : Utah Westerners AV Collection A0142
Utah Westerners Records Manuscripts Accn 370
Donor Information :
Acq Method: donated by
Acq Name: Jack Shapiro and Hal Schindler
Acq Date:
Processing Information : This collection was processed by Dale Larsen; Updated by Ashley Arave on March 1995; August 2004.

Index Terms
These records are indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the J.Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah. Researchers wishing to find related materials should search the catalog under these index terms.
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Restrictions
Materials must be used on-site; advance notice suggested. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.


Arrangement of the Records
Collection is arranged by topic and date.


Detailed Description of the Records
    box  1 :
      folder  1 : Members (1969)
        1 A. K. Larsen
        2 Mtn. Meadows, Utah
        3 Floyd O'Niel, Ruth Eltridge, Chas Peterson, Hole-in-the-Rock
        4 Hal Sanders Silver Reef, Utah, Utah Westerners Trip
        5 Hurricane Fault So. Utah
        6 C. G. Crampton Silver Reef, Utah Westerners Trip
        7 Juanita Brooks, Chas Peterson, Lake Powell
        8 Floyd O'Niel, Chas Peterson, D. Miller
        9 Floyd O'Niel, Bud Rersho, Greg Thompson
        10 Hurricane Fault So. Utah, Utah Westerners
      folder  2 : Trip: City of Rocks, California Cut-off Trail (June 1971)
        1-2 Callao, Utah
        3 Lookout Pass Pony Express Trail
        4-7 Callao, Utah
        8 Rock Spring, Nevada
        9 Pony Express Trail, Utah Westerners trip, old river bed
        10 D. Miller, "Prominent camping area on the California trail. Names of immigrants appear on rocks in the vicinity."
      folder  3 : Trip: Danger Cave (1978)
        1-6 Promontory and Danger Cave
        7-9 large cement cylinders at Promontory
        10-14 grave markers
      folder  4 : Promontory, Utah - Re-enactment (1978)
        1-10 men in costume re-enacting the driving of the Golden Spike
        (20 35 mm negative images of folders 3 and 4)
      folder  5 : South Pass (1979)
        1 marker telling the story of South Pass
        2 chronology of South Pass
        3 map of South Pass
        4 "'Hole In The Wall Cabin' - through this door walked Butch Cassidy, The Sundance Kid, and other outlaws of the famous Hole In The Wall Gang. The cabin was built on Buffalo Creek, in the Hole In The Wall country, west of Kayce, Wyoming Territory in 1883 by Alexander Gent."
        5 grave of John AJeremiah Liver-eating@ Johnston
        6 Wyoming plains
        7 Old Trail Town
        8-9 plaque of John AJeremiah Liver-eating@ Johnston
        10 Old Trail Town, Museum of the Old West
        11-19 plaques in the museum
      folder  6 : Salt Flats, Utah (1979)
        1 plaque for the first transcontinental telephone line
        2 Little Sandy Crossing
        3 Sutter's Hock Farm
        4 Eby Stamp Mill
        5 "To the brave men who rode the Pony Express 1860-1861. The site of Big Sandy Station gift of Andrew Arnott to the State of Wyoming."
        6 Donner Party plaque
        7 Eby Stamp Mill
        8 overlooking the Salt Flats
        9 "Welcome to the Bonneville Salt Flats"
        (24 35 mm negative images of 1-9 and unidentified people)
      folder  7 : Cody, Wyoming, Colter's Hell, Tetons (1979)
        1 "Col. William Frederick Cody, 1846-1917 'Buffalo Bill'"
        2 Colter's Hell
        3-4 The Teton Mountains
        5-6 story plaque of Buffalo Bill
        7 story plaque of Little Sure Shot
        8 story plaque of Annie Oakley
        9 story plaque of Alfred Jacob Miller
        10 story plaque of Karl Bodmer
        11 unidentified river
        (25 35 mm images of 1-11 and other unidentified)
      folder  8 : Meeker Massacre Site
        1 sign: "This area was site of White River Ute Indian agency where U. S. Gov't agent - Nathan C. Meeker with male employees were massacred, women and children - captured by Utes. September 29,th 1879."
        2-6 marker naming wounded and dead
        7-9 photos of the area
        10 plaque naming the dead
        11 Thornburgh, site of Battle of Milk Creek 1879
        12 fake advertisement for the sale of Buffalo chips
        (21 35 mm negative images of unidentified)
      folder  9 : Meeker Massacre Site
        1 Thornburgh, site of Battle of Milk Creek 1879
        2 plaque naming the dead
        3-5 photos of the area
        6-10 marker naming wounded and dead
        11 sign: "This area was site of White River Ute Indian agency where U. S. Govt. agent - Nathan C. Meeker with male employees were massacred, women and children - captured by Utes. September 29,th 1879."
        (19 35 mm negative images of unidentified)
      folder  10 : Red Rock Pass/Jefferson Hunt
        1 Red Rock Pass sign
        2 grave marker of Jefferson Hunt
        3-4 Hunt memorial marker
        5-8 photos of the area
        9 grave marker of J. Frank Hunt
        10 memorial marker
        11 photo of the area
        12 Hunt memorial marker
        13 the area
      folder  11 : Red Rock Pass/Jefferson Hunt
        1-4 photos of the area and grave markers
        5 grave of Matilda Jane Nease, wife of Capt. Jefferson Hunt
        6-12 photos of the area and grave and memorial markers of the Hunt family
        (25 35 mm negative images of unidentified)
      folder  12 : Special Events Center Museum (plaques in the museum)
        1 Elisha Stevens
        2 Nathaniel Wyeth
        3 John Augustus Sutter
        4 Jacob Hamblin
        5 Brigham Young
        6 Narcissa Prentiss Whitman
        7 Zebulon Montgomery Pike
        8 painting of men in military uniform
        9 Devil=s Gate, Wyoming
        10 General George Armstrong Custer
        11 Grenville Mellen Dodge
        12 Theodore Dehone Judah
        13 Jim Bridger
        14 John Charles Fremont
        15 Old Ephraim
        16 Horace A. W. Tabor
        17 Allan Pinkerton
        18 Peirre Jean DeSmet
        19 Jason Lee
        20 John Welsey Powell
        21 Jefferson Davis
        22 John S. Fremont
        (25 35 mm negative images of 1-22 and some unidentified)
      folder  13 : Fort "Davy Crockett"
        1-15 photos of the area including grave markers and old log buildings
        16 plaque "Fort Davy Crockett Built in this Valley in 1837 by mountain men Thomspon, Craig and Sinclair, was the winter rendezvous of traders, trappers and Indians until 1840 after which it fell into decay and was abandoned."
      folder  14 : Fort "Davy Crockett"
        1-13 photos of the area including grave markers and old log buildings
        14 plaque "Fort Davy Crockett Built in this Valley in 1837 by mountain men Thompson, Craig and Sinclair, was the winter rendezvous of traders, trappers and Indians until 1840 after which it fell into decay and was abandoned."
        15 photo of the area
        (20 35 mm negative images of folders 13 and 14 and some unidentified)
      folder  15 : Father Stoffel blessing "Kit Carson's Cross"
        1-2 Father Stoffel
        3 the cross in the stone
      folder  16 : California Trail
        1 sign showing the path of the California trail
        2 "Emigrant wagons had come nearly 1400 miles to get here. Ahead lay the fantastic formations of the City of Rocks, the desolate wastes of the Humboldt, and finally the mountain passes of the high Sierra. Forty-niners, in their rush to the California gold fields, found a more direct route south of here, but Oregon-bound travelers continued to pass this point forgoing west through the Snake River valley. As you drive on, remember them."
        3 the trail sign
        4-6 unidentified stone formation (Escalante Ruin ?)
        7 sign pointing to River overlook of Escalante Ruin
        8 "The Route"
        9-10 "Dominguez - Escalante Expedition"
        11 unidentified stone formation (Escalante Ruin ?)
        12-13 "Nearby Features"
        14-15 "Escalante Ruins"
        16-17 unidentified body of water
        18 "Pioneered by >Messrs. Hudspeth & Myers, of the Jackson County, Missouri Company= who reached here on July 24, 1849, the new route was mistakenly thought to save nearly a hundred miles over the old way along Snake River to the north. From here, the Forty-niners struck southwest for California and golden riches."
        19 map of Hudspeth's cutoff
        20 Hudspeth's Cutoff
        21-22 "Old Fort Hall"
        (24 35 mm negative images of 1-22 and unidentified)
      folder  17 : Bear River/Golden Spike Monuments
        1-2 "Bear River Battle"/"The Battle of Bear River"
        3 "In 1858 Camp Floyd, Utah, was the largest military installation in the United States. Nearly 20 percent of the army's 17,900 men were stationed there."
        4 The Big Fill
        5-6 photos of the area
        7 "The 'Orange Special' wreck"
        8 Golden Spike Monument
        9 the area
        10 The Big Trestle
        11 "The Founding of Franklin was part of a well organized plan of Mormon expansion: church authorities sent the colonists under Thomas Smart from Provo, Utah. Men of many trades were included in order to make the community self-sufficient. From 1874-1877, Franklin was the busy terminus of the Utah Northern Railroad, where freight for the Montana mines reloaded for the long wagon haul north."
        12 "Idaho's Oldest Town@ (Franklin)
        13 painting above a door
        14 "Friction between the whites and these Indians, who had suffered from too many years of close contact with fur hunters, led P. E. Connor to set out from Salt Lake on a cold winter campaign. The Shoshoni had a strong position along Battle Creek Canyon just north ofhere. But with a loss of over 400, the met the greatest Indian disaster in the entire West, January 29, 1863."
        15 photo of The Big Fill
        16 Corrinne Pioneer Railroad Town
        17 "Competition 1869"
        18 photo of The Big Trestle
        19 the Big Fill
        20 plaque to Pioneer Women
        (20 35 mm negative images to match folder 17)
      folder  18 : Areas in Utah/Idaho (signs and plaques)
        1 Nathaniel J. Wyeth
        2 The Mountain Men; Kit Carson, James Bridger
        3 Famous Early Visitors; John C. Fremont, Jason Lee, and two unidentified
        4 Factors at the Fort; Old Fort Hall, Francis Ermatinger
        5 The First To Come; Dr. Marcus Whitman, and two unidentified women
        6 The Oregon Trail
        7 On The Trail
        8 Stagecoach And Freighting Days
        9 Nels Anderson, Mary Christoffersen Anderson
        10 Lava Hot Springs
        11-12 Hudspeth's Cutoff
        13 Camp Connor
        14 Soda Springs
        15 "General Patrick Edward Connor U. S. A. Cavalry Infantry 53 families and others founded Soda Springs built fort to protect emigrants. County seat Oneida County 1864-1867"
        16 Hooper Spring, Analysis
        17 Nels Anderson, Mary Christoffersen Anderson
        18 Soda Springs
        19 Camp Connor
        20-22 unidentified river
        23-24 Cache Valley
        (23 35 mm negative images of folder 18)
      folder  19 : Edge of the Cedars, Museum
        1-4 The San Juan Mission
        (22 35 mm negative images of unidentified)
      folder  20 : Miscellaneous
        1 Bear River Battle
        2 Red Rock Pass
        3 The Battle of Bear River
        4 grave of John Jeremiah Liver-Eating Johnston
        5-8 Eby Stamp Mill
        9-10 unidentified members
        11 Kit Carson=s Cross
        12-13 Bear River Battle
        14 plaque of John "Jeremiah Liver-Eating" Johnston
        15 unidentified man
        16 "Welcome to the Edge of the Cedars Museum"
        17 unidentified mountain
        18 chart of Native Americans
        19 old cabin
        20 information on signs
        21 "UTE: Early Utes used brush shelters which could be constructed quickly by nomadic people and then left behind. By 1720, many Utes were living in tepees of tanned leather. The transported them on horseback. The Ute tepee differed from tepees of other Plains Indians in that it used only eight poles. As late as the turn of the century the Ute Mountain Utes were using brush shelter huts. In the early twentieth century sine Utes lived in hogans, which they constructed used skills learned from the Navajo."
        22 ancient Indian dwellings
        23 sign for Pueblo Bonito