Running the Colorado River : oral history transcript / Otis Reed Marston ; tape recorded interview conducted by Francis P. Farguhar in 1965. Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, Calif., 1965.

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Running the Colorado River : oral history transcript / Otis Reed Marston ; tape recorded interview conducted by Francis P. Farguhar in 1965. Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, Calif., 1965.

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Comments on the beginning of his interest in running rivers in 1942; difficulties in running the Colorado through the Grand Canyon; John W. Powell's trip and other early explorations of the Canyon. Biographical material and bibliography of Marston's writings included.

[3], 26 leaves ; 28 cm.

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Marston, Otis R., 1894-

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Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office

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According to the University of California, Berkeley Bancroft Library website: "The Regional Oral History Office (ROHO) is a research program of the University of California, Berkeley, working within The Bancroft Library. ROHO conducts, teaches, analyzes, and archives oral and video history documents in a broad variety of subject areas critical to the history of California and the United States." For more information regarding the ROHO and their work please consult their website: http://bancroft....

Farquhar, Francis Peloubet, 1887-1974

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Farquhar was born on Dec. 31, 1887 in Newton, MA; AB, Harvard Univ., 1909; became public accountant in Boston and San Francisco, 1909-59; also served as an accountant with the US National Park Service, 1922-25; president of the California Academy of Sciences, and California Historical Society; president of the Sierra Club, and editor of the Bulletin, 1926-46; president, California State Board of Accountancy, 1953-54; recipient of the John Muir award for conservation, 1965; made expeditions to Mt...

Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902

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Wallace Earle Stegner is an author. From the guide to the Papers, 1868-1879, relating to John Wesley Powell and the Colorado River, 1868-1879, (American Philosophical Society) John Wesley Powell was a geologist, ethnologist, and director of the United States Geological Survey; he was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1889. From the guide to the John Wesley Powell correspondence, 1869-1879, of the Powell Survey, 1869-1879, (American Philosophical So...