Hatch River Expeditions video collection 1923-1998

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Hatch River Expeditions video collection 1923-1998

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The Hatch River Expeditions video collection (1923-1998) consists of movies documenting the Hatch family and Hatch River Expeditions river trips from the 1930s to the 1990s. Robert Rafael "Bus" Hatch and his family began guiding groups down the Green and Yampa Rivers in the mid 20th century, and their legacy is continued by the third generation Hatches still running their river running business.

49 VHS videocassettes, 2 8mm films, 2 Super 8mm films, 3 16mm films. 12 VHS are duplicates; three 16mm film reels are duplicates of VHS tape item 19.

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J. Willard Marriott Library. University of Utah Audio Visual Archives

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Hatch River Expeditions.

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Robert Rafael "Bus" Hatch and his brothers Alton and Tom began boating in the Vernal, Utah, area in the late 1920s. They ran the Green River in 1931, the Green and Colorado through Cataract Canyon in 1933, and the Grand Canyon in 1934. In 1935-36, they ran the Middle Fork of the Salmon River in Idaho, as well as the Main Salmon. By the end of World War II, Bus Hatch in particular had become known as a river runner. With the controversy over the planned Echo Park Dam in Dinosaur National Monument...

Hatch, Bus, 1902-1967

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