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The Ol’ Pioneer The Magazine of the Historical Society

Volume 31 : Number 4 www.GrandCanyonHistory.org Fall 2020

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Suff’s Campaign Gains Steam at El Tovar ...... 3 The Saga of Louis D. Boucher ...... 6 Helen Ranney ...... 14 The Bulletin ...... 15 President’s Letter The Ol’ Pioneer The Magazine of the Grand Canyon Historical Society This will be my final letter to our members, as my term as President ceases at the end of 2020. Since this is my second three-year term on the Board of Volume 31 : Number 4 Directors, I will be terming off the Board. Our by-laws ensure there is an Fall 2020 orderly transition within the Board of Directors. By January 2021, you our u members will have selected five new or reelected people, and they will begin The Historical Society was established to serve their first or second three-year terms. Keep watch for an election in July 1984 as a non-profit corporation email in November; we do not plan to mail paper ballots. to develop and promote appreciation, Six years ago when I attended my first Board meeting, as I learned about all understanding and education of the the great GCHS programs and projects, I quickly realized the importance of my earlier history of the inhabitants and new role. At that meeting, the call went out for volunteers to co-chair the 2016 important events of the Grand Canyon. Grand Canyon History Symposium. Helen Ranney had already volunteered The Ol’ Pioneer is published by the GRAND and I was aware of Helen’s great management and organizational talents from CANYON HISTORICAL SOCIETY. when I presented at the 2012 History Symposium. Now that I was on the An integral part of the publication is an Board, it was time to get to work so I volunteered and was approved by the informational section, The Bulletin, that Board to co-chair with Helen. Having done a lot of event management in my updates members on Society activities, programs, events, Board actions and career, I appreciated the opportunity to use my skills to help coordinate that discussions. The Ol’ Pioneer is a benefit of upcoming gathering of historians and people who love the Grand Canyon. membership and is open to any person The 2016 History Symposium was a great success and we filled the interested in the historical, educational, Shrine of the Ages to capacity, primarily with GCHS members. The Board- and charitable purposes of the Society. approved new policy allowing early registration for GCHS members worked Membership is on an annual basis using the standard calendar; and dues of $25 are wonderfully and helped increase membership. More than seventy people payable on the 1st of January each year, volunteered to help plan and run the symposium, tours and related events. and mailed to the GCHS Treasurer, PO Box Almost all the volunteers were members! The gathering began with a first 1667, Grand Canyon, AZ 86023-1667. The night social gathering where presenters, volunteers and attendees could Ol’ Pioneer magazine is copyrighted by the meet and greet. Our registration Chair Amy Horn and volunteers produced Grand Canyon Historical Society, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication name tags that identified each person as a presenter, Board member and/or may be reproduced or used in any form volunteer. I remember running around doing last minute items when Amy without permission of the publisher. came up and pinned on my name tag. She did this for Helen as well. After a number of strange comments from people about “the Big Cheese”, I finally Editor: Mary Williams, Karen Greig looked at my name tag that had my name plus three different ribbons: GCHS Submission deadlines: January 1, April 1, July 1, and October 1. Submit photos and Board Member, Volunteer and “Big Cheese.” Both Helen and I were honored stories to the editors of The Ol’ Pioneer at: to have the new title! [email protected] Contact Over the last six years I’ve seen our Grand Canyon Historical Society’s for mailing address (928) 606-9932. growth in membership, programs and activities. The award programs Please submit written articles and photos and scholarships are continuing and the oral history program has greatly electronically by email if possible. Submissions to The Bulletin should be sent expanded. One of the most exciting projects has been our digitization efforts to [email protected] which are making our amazing collection easily available online. This was a Board priority and we allocated appropriate funds; in addition this effort GCHS Officers was greatly assisted by a large Humanities grant. The success of this Dave Mortenson, President program was due to several Board members and volunteers, working closely Dick Brown, Vice President Brian Blue, Treasurer with NAU’s Cline Library staff who made the project succeed. Jack Pennington, Secretary The “can do” attitude of this great volunteer organization was best Karen Greig, Membership & Bulletin demonstrated by our 2019 Grand Canyon History Symposium, kicking off Haley Johnson/Wayne Ranney, Pioneer a year celebrating Grand Canyon National Park’s 100th year. In January, Award Chairs the fate of the Symposium was uncertain due to an unexpected Federal David Schaller/Tom Martin, Oral History Al Richmond, Hall of Fame Government shutdown, so the organization developed contingency plans; but Margaret Hangan, Scholarship Chair the shutdown ended just in time. We knew it might snow a bit in February, but the night of our opening reception all roads to the South Rim were closed due Board of Directors Brian Blue Dave Mortenson Dick Brown Jack Pennington Cover : Boucher leading the William Jennings Bryan party down the below Mari Carlos Helen Ranney Cape Horn in September 1904. Kolb Bros photo. GRCA 05431. Nikki Cooley John Reid Margaret Hangan David Schaller Jill Hough Rich Turner Haley Johnson Slim Woodruff 2 : Grand Canyon Historical Society Kristen Luetkemeier to a huge snowstorm! Fortunately, Shrine of the Ages Auditorium all the great people I have met at our most of our many volunteers, “We did it! This is what our great gatherings, please excuse my future presenters and registered attendees organization does!” name tag should it have an added arrived just ahead of the storm and I’ve been honored to be on the ribbon, “Little Cheese”! we watched the canyon turn into a Board and a member. Our growth winter wonderland from inside the and success is due to a great team Thank you, reception hall. At the Symposium effort with the strong volunteer and Dave Mortenson closing I discarded my prepared financial support of our membership. [email protected] remarks and simply told the full I will continue to be a volunteer. For Suff’s Campaign Gains Steam at El Tovar

by Cindy Stafford that could be exerted on one’s behalf, amendment guaranteeing equal (and not related to the word “suffer”). suffrage.2 Their strategy involved “We…appeal to the four million “Suffragist,” a gender-neutral term pressuring whichever party held enfranchised women of the west for all supporters of voting rights, was power, not to win the election as an urging them to do all in their preferred by American leaders over independent party, with the battle power to press for the immediate “suffragette,” originally derogative, cry “Vote Against Wilson; He Kept passage of the national suffrage but especially embraced by British Us Out of Suffrage.” “As we could amendment.” women.2 not change the President’s mind, Led by the indomitable , we decided to change presidents.”3 The Williams News, April 20, 1916 organizers planned a five-week cross These women aimed to gain some country train campaign in advance of the western states’ 91 electoral Suffragists in 1916 called the 12 of forming the National Woman’s votes through speeches, luncheons, western states “the free states,” in Party with one plank only: to ensure mass meetings and distribution of contrast to the eastern states that passage of the Susan B. Anthony pamphlets. denied women the vote. President Woodrow Wilson ran for re-election that year with the soon to be ironic slogan, “He Kept Us Out of War.” Though having served as president of Princeton University and governor of New Jersey and generally supportive of women’s rights, President Wilson sprang from deep Southern roots and favored states deciding this, not a constitutional amendment. As leader of the Democratic party, these activists held President Wilson responsible for not pressing this issue with Congress. The House committee had twice voted to postpone consideration of a suffrage amendment indefinitely. Leaders did not want any embarrassing, negative impacts on upcoming re- election campaigns in November. To the suffragists, this meant “war to the end.”1 The meaning of “suffrage” as the right to vote comes from the Latin suffragium, a ballot from Roman Empire times, and later the pressure Library of Congress, National Woman’s Party Records.5 www.GrandCanyonHistory.org Grand Canyon Historical Society : 3 On Tuesday, April 18th 1916, the final result. Less than 4,000 votes in women over the next several months Suffrage Special train scheduled a California helped decide the race for “obstruction of traffic,” leading stop in Williams, Arizona and their against Republican Charles Evans to charges, fines, and even jail time. private Pullman car switched to the Hughes, a Supreme Court Justice Mary Dean Powell, the only child Grand Canyon tracks. During the supported by Theodore Roosevelt.8 of Major John Wesley Powell and planned one-hour layover, leaders Democrats lost more than 70 seats his wife Emma, went to jail for her of the suffrage movement with near- in the House of Representatives Silent Sentinel participation and celebrity status addressed the crowd. and only maintained a majority by later held offices in the National Before proceeding on to the Grand forming a coalition with Progressives, Woman’s Party.12 When leaders Canyon, they urged voter support a Prohibitionist, and a Socialist.9 Alice demanded to be treated as political for nationwide suffrage regardless of Paul declared that politicians of all prisoners and staged hunger strikes, political affiliation.4 stripes had received the western they were subjected to brutal forced Later at Grand Canyon, the music women voters’ message of resolve feedings. The subsequent publicity room at El Tovar Hotel served as the to have action on the suffrage of these horrors worked in their location for the suffrage meeting. The amendment.10 favor, however, and eventually the women expected competition from The United States entered the President and Congress supported the the Hopi dancers and the nightly war in Europe within five months 19th Amendment to the Constitution, lecture on the canyon. In spite of and just one month after President with three-quarters of the states this, they were the main attraction Wilson’s second inauguration, in ratifying it in 1920.2 Many scheduled that evening. “A crowd of people spite of his campaign slogan. While commemorative centennial events from every part of the country made many women turned their efforts to this year occur through video and up their audience.”6 No references the war effort, the National Woman’s online websites due to the COVID-19 to local community members have Party literally turned up the heat, pandemic, a flashback to the 1918 been found; it seems likely many with Silent Sentinel protestors pandemic these suffragists survived. attended or at least knew about carrying banners in front of the White The determination of the this event. The women displayed their amendment banner and after speeches and appeals, the audience unanimously passed a resolution for Congress to report the Susan B. Anthony amendment to the states for immediate ratification. A generous collection of money and cheers sent the envoys on their way. “The train pulled out with the purple, white and gold decorations fluttering from the windows, having carried the message of unfranchised women of the east to the very rim of the canyon, a mile below [sic] sea level.”6 The Suffrage Special journeyed on to scheduled meetings in Tucson, Phoenix, and Prescott over the next several days drawing big crowds, Library of Congress, National Woman’s Party Records.13 publicity, and drumming up support. At the conclusion of the cross- country trip, hundreds of supporters House that mocked the President’s National Woman’s Party members held a “spectacular parade and remarks about lack of democracy accomplished what most thought demonstration” in Washington, D.C. in Germany; they burned copies of impossible. Their legendary tactics before the train envoys with great his speeches and referred to him as inspired by Alice Paul’s earlier pageantry presented their petitions “Kaiser Wilson.”11 These activities experience with the British Women’s to Congress.7 were controversial, especially during Social and Political Union, have President Wilson ultimately won wartime, with onlookers often been utilized by social movements a close re-election in November, jeering, destroying banners, and even ever since. In spite of this laudable though it took a few days to correct physically assaulting these women. achievement, not all women gained erroneous headlines and determine Policemen stood by and watched, the right to vote. Though the 15th the seesawing predictions and eventually arresting more than 500 Amendment of 1870 granted all

4 : Grand Canyon Historical Society www.GrandCanyonHistory.org 3. Mrs. Harriette Stanton Blanch, ’s daughter and part of the Suffrage Special envoy, made long distance telephone messages the day before the election to mass meetings in each state where women went to the polls; “Woman’s Party Close Campaign with Meeting,” The Albuquerque Journal, November 6, 1916. 4. The Williams News, April 13, 1916, Number 20 p 1. 5. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/ mnwp.160080. 6. The Suffragist, April 29, 1916 7. Philadelphia Inquirer, “Suffragists Finish Trip of 10,000 Miles,” p 3, May 17, 1916. 8. https://www.270towin. com/1916_Election/; Theodore Roosevelt declined to run again for the Progressive Party as he had in 1912, a factor in Wilson’s first election win. 9. https://history.house.gov/ National Woman’s Party Headquarters: Alva Belmont House.15 Congressional-Overview/ Profiles/65th/. 10. “Women Respond to Suffrage (male) citizens the right to vote working to win passage of the Equal Call,” Trenton Evening Times, regardless of race, more than 50 years Rights Amendment. Alice Paul and November 20, 1916, p 3. passed before the Snyder Act of 1924 other workers including Mary Dean 11. https://www.loc.gov/teachers/ brought the reality of voting closer Powell lived there as well. The former classroommaterials/connections/ for Native Americans. More than mansion also serves as a museum women-protest/history4.html another 40 years would pass before all and archive repository, where The 12. “1917 Suffragettes Honored: 24 states recognized this right; Arizona’s Suffragist news item detailing the Who Were Put in Jail Are Present state constitution prohibited voting Suffrage Special stop at Grand at Luncheon,” The Evening Star, 6 by Native Americans until 1948. The Canyon can be found. Washington, D.C., December 16, Civil Rights Act of 1965 helped remove 1937, B-10. obstacles such as poll taxes, literacy 13. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/ tests, and fraud and intimidation that Endnotes mnwp.276030 kept them and African Americans 1. http://www.loc.gov/teachers/ 14. https://www.brennancenter. from fully exercising their rights.14 classroommaterials/lessons/ org/issues/ensure-every-american- After ratification of the 19th women-rights/yearbook.html can-vote/voting-reform/voting- Amendment one hundred years summarizes legislative history. See rights-act. ago, Alice Paul admonished, “It is http://www.crusadeforthevote.org/ 15. Library of Congress, National incredible to me that any woman woman-suffrage-timeline-18401920 Woman’s Party Records, http://hdl. should consider the fight for full for general history of the women’s loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.159047 equality won. It has just begun. suffrage movement. https:// 16 https://www.nps.gov/teachers/ There is hardly a field, economic or www.loc.gov/collections/women- classrooms/alicepaul-womans- political, in which the natural and of-protest/articles-and-essays/ place-in-this-house.htm. unaccustomed policy is not to ignore historical-overview-of-the-national- women. . .”16 Designated the Belmont- womans-party/ provides an Paul Women’s Equality National historical overview of Alice Paul and Monument in 2016, the National the National Woman’s Party. Woman’s Party headquarters in 2. Murphy, Cullen. Are We Rome? Washington, D.C. educates the public The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of about their history and continues America, 2007 p 97. www.GrandCanyonHistory.org Grand Canyon Historical Society : 5 The Saga of Louis D. Boucher by Dick Brown brother, Joseph Berard, witnessed the On July 21, 1891, a wayward burial service. The 1881 Canadian French Canadian registered as Louis “May your trails be crooked, census for Oxford shows Louis D. D. Boucher of Sherbrooke, Québec winding, lonesome, dangerous, Boucher, age 33, as a widower and a at John Hance’s tourist camp on the leading to the most amazing view.” farmer with one daughter, Emilie, age South Rim of the Grand Canyon. Of 4, living next-door to his parents. course, there is no mention of him in – Edward Abbey On November 24, 1881, Louis Canada’s 1891 census, only Elisabeth married Elisabeth Caya at St-Michel- Boucher, age 38, married, residing in This story begins in Canada but de-Sherbrooke where he had married South Ward, Sherbrooke. becomes anchored in the American his first wife. Elisabeth’s father was West, notably in the Grand Canyon, Louis Caya and her mother was Boucher’s Canyon Years where Louis D. Boucher touched Angele Drowse. Louis Boucher’s all aspects of canyon pioneering: new bride was born on February 22, Boucher’s trail from the Province of trail-building, prospecting, mining, 1852. At the time of their marriage, Québec to the Territory of Arizona exploring and guiding; he even Elisabeth was a factory worker has yet to be discovered but probably touched river running. He was a man residing in South Ward, Sherbrooke, is replete with teasing twists and grief- stricken after the loss of his with her mother, two younger sisters shadowy switchbacks like the trails wife and daughter, a man full of pride and a younger brother. Her mother he cut along canyon walls more than and optimism, a man who shunned was widowed and listed in the 1881 a century ago. conflict and greed, a sentimental census as head of household. He lived in isolation at Dripping man who found peace and quiet in a During the years 1882-1887, Louis Springs, a recess in the sandstone wall canyon of dreams. and Elisabeth had four sons, as well at the western extremity of Hermit as Emilie from his previous marriage. Basin, where cool spring water still Boucher’s Early Years Unfortunately, tragedy struck again trickles from an overhang into a in the life of Louis Boucher when shady pool. This quiet, reclusive trail- Louis Boucher’s father, Jean Louis, his mother Aurélie, age 62, died on builder and prospector came to be was a cultivateur (farmer).1 At age 22, June 14, 1888 and, the following year, known as the famous hermit of the he married 20-year old Henriette Aurélie his daughter Emilie, age 13, died on Grand Canyon. But it can be argued Martin on August 31, 1847 at Saint-Remi, September 1, 1889. These compound that Boucher was not a hermit at all. Napierville, 20 miles south of Montreal, deaths must have taken quite a toll on He associated with other prospectors, Québec. Their son, the first born of Louis. trail-builders and canyon explorers, several siblings, Louis Désiré Boucher, About a year after Emilie’s and freely shared his canyon came into this world at Napierville on passing, a notary document5 showed knowledge with thousands of early October 30, 1847.2 a farm property lease agreement tourists. Louis was raised as a farmer, negotiated for Elisabeth, married In 1891 Boucher was employed but also worked as a painter and a to Louis D. Boucher, of Saint- by John Hance as a trail guide. “My joiner.3 At age 27, he proposed to Sophie Elie d’Orford Township, west of guide for the day was a Frenchman, Mélanise Bérard.4 She was the daughter Sherbrooke. The property included Louis de Bouchère, intelligent, of Eugene James Bérard and Emilie a large section of land with buildings obliging, and not too talkative,” Deschenes Bérard. Although Mélanise and other improvements. This farm wrote H. C. Hovey in an August was a minor, they gave their blessing lease referenced Louis D. Boucher 1892 edition of Scientific American6. of the marriage. Jean and Henriette also as “absent from this promise” and “Friends kindly warned me that the gave their blessing. The wedding took “separated by marriage contract.” descent into this enormous gorge would place on November 8, 1875 at St-Michel- Clearly, Louis, now legally separated, overtax anyone except a mountaineer or de-Sherbrooke on the St. Francis River in gave up farming and family life, and a hardy geologist,” wrote Hovey. “But, southeastern Québec. moved on. encouraged by Bouchère, I resolved to On July 9, 1876, Louis and Mélanise Death took his first wife and only make the attempt; and by taking plenty had a daughter, Marie Emilie, born daughter at young ages, and after a of time for it, the task was by no means in the Oxford District of Sherbrooke. failed second marriage, Louis Boucher exhausting. Hiring a pair of sturdy She was named after her maternal was ready for a change. At some burros, one for the pack and the other grandmother. Unfortunately, point, Louis crossed the Canadian- for the saddle wherever riding should be Mélanise, age 25, passed away on American border. Sherbrooke is only found practicable, we boldly crossed the March 23, 1880. Louis and Mélanise’s about 35 miles north of the border. rim. Bouchère took the lead; Johnny and

6 : Grand Canyon Historical Society www.GrandCanyonHistory.org Jenny followed, and the writer brought him as a man with a “white beard of the West” who haunted the saloons 7 up the rear.” and white mustache jogging along of Deadwood, South Dakota. The Silver In May 1892, when Pete Berry on a white mule. . . living in a white Bell Trail was officially recorded in 18 and Ralph Cameron descended the tent and telling only white lies to 1902. Hance Trail to access their lucky white strangers.”12 Another Grand The trail from the rim to Dripping copper strike on , Canyon author, George Wharton James, Springs is straightforward, as is they encountered Louis Boucher and in reference to Hermit Creek’s deep cuts the first segment of the Silver Bell his party camped at a rock house near in the Redwall, cited a white lie example: Trail winding below Yuma Point. It Hance Spring. After staying overnight, “Louis Boucher assures me that it is so contours along the top of the Supai they borrowed a bay pack mare from narrow and deep that he has seen stars Group and offers some of the best Boucher and continued their journey from its recesses at midday.”13 panoramic vistas in the canyon, with to the Last Chance Mine8. Not far Boucher guided tourists on the Shiva Temple looming directly across from Hance’s rock house, protected Bright Angel Trail and tended the Granite Gorge and glimpses of the by an overhang of , toll gate at the trailhead. With Niles river shimmering in the distance. To are the inscriptions of a couple dozen Cameron, Ralph’s older brother, he the east drops Hermit Creek with its turn-of-the-century canyon visitors, helped manage Cameron Camp at lush green environs. Jutting out from including the inscription “L. D. Indian Garden.14 At one time he was the North Rim is Point Sublime and Boucher.” employed by John Page to guide parties from deep in the gorge rises the roar As a prospector, Boucher started on the . of Hermit and Boucher rapids. filing copper mining claims The trail descends the in 1893, his first being the Supai to the head of Travertine Bummer at the mouth of Canyon below Cocopa Point. Long Canyon (known today The steep Redwall descent, as Boucher Canyon) on beginning in the saddle February 18th with Dan Hogan just west of Whites Butte, is and Henry Ward. His second challenging. Finally the path claim was the Crazy Horse on intersects with the July 13th with Frank Hull.9 The (first known as the River View Crazy Horse claim was located Trail)19 in the Tapeats Sandstone about five miles northwest of and connects to the bedrock of Rain Tanks10 and one mile east Boucher Canyon at the junction of the road leading to the Bright of , the west arm Angel trailhead.11 On September of Boucher Creek.20 Here, in a 27, 1895, Boucher, grubstaked spectacular amphitheater, and by John G. Verkamp, David W. just a short distance from the Babbitt and Edward J. Babbitt, river, Boucher established his filed three mining claims— lower camp. He worked his Green, Lady of the West and Bummer copper mine and Copper Queen—eight miles experimented with a vegetable south of the canyon rim. These garden. He built a rock cabin promising claims helped attract Louis Boucher (foreground) packing out of the canyon. GRCA 30607A. and pitched tents equipped the railroad to the South Rim. with comfortable beds and The eccentric prospector was certain that Boucher built several canyon other amenities to accommodate his the copper deposits of his canyon mines trails, starting with the three-quarter- tourists. were a continuation of a copper ledge mile trail to Dripping Springs in the Boucher provided outfitting that William Bass had discovered in early 1890s.15 There, he outfitted his services to a French-speaking Copper Canyon and that Pete Berry had camp with overnight accommodations. geologist, though not of French origin, discovered in Horseshoe Mesa. Boucher It was primitive, with two white tents set named François Émile Matthes filed another claim on Long Creek on end-to-end and a nearby corral for horses, during the 1902-1903 mapping 16 January 10, 1902. This may have been his burros and mules. of the Grand Canyon. In April graphite mine that he believed would one He extended his Dripping Springs 1902, Matthes planned to ferry his day make him wealthy. Trail to his mining claims in Long team across the river for weeks of Sitting astride his mule, Boucher Canyon and named the extension the methodical topographic surveys was the very image of a canyon Silver Bell Trail after his favorite mule using heliotropes and planetables prospector, outfitted with pick, pan, around whose neck he had fastened a for triangulation on Point Sublime. shovel, rope and rifle. Grand Canyon bell.17 Boucher had another mule named While traversing Hermit Basin, author Edwin Corle once described Calamity Jane after the boisterous “Lady he encountered Boucher. After www.GrandCanyonHistory.org Grand Canyon Historical Society : 7 Louis Boucher guiding his mule party down the upper portion of the Bright Angel Trail, circa 1904. Kolb Bros photo. GRCA 05558.

Throughout August 1902, Boucher’s support to the Matthes expedition included working as guide, deer- hunter and burro wrangler.22 The following year, the Matthes expedition’s field work shifted to Boucher’s canyon domain. That summer, Boucher took time out to search for two men missing on the river. On July 27, 1903, Peter McGonigle and Charles McLean planned to cross the river in a water- logged scow. When they failed to return the next day, Louis Boucher and Niles Cameron initiated a search. With no boat in sight at Bright Angel Guests at Boucher’s Dripping Springs Camp. GRCA 15760. Creek, they searched the shoreline as far downstream as Horn Creek, but with no trace of McGonigle or discussing river crossing possibilities, Matthes and Boucher led their McLean or the scow. They set off sticks they decided to use a scow owned by burros and horses down Bass Trail of dynamite to attract the attention William Bass to cross the river rather to the water’s edge. They crossed of the men, if they were still alive. than Ralph Cameron’s canvas boat at successfully and climbed up to the Others joined the search, watching Bright Angel Creek.21 forested Kaibab Plateau. Surprisingly, for bodies along the river but to no Matthes arranged for the use of Matthes found Point Sublime avail. Boucher and Cameron were the Boucher’s burros and paid Bass six rather disappointing, probably due first to start the search and the last to dollars for the use of his boat. After to its difficult access rather than end it.23 spending the night at Bass Camp, the stupendous views it offered. As winter approached, Boucher

8 : Grand Canyon Historical Society www.GrandCanyonHistory.org On December 13, insulted when Ranger Pat Fenton offered 1907, Edwin Monett him $8 per month to maintain his own 29 and Charles Russell trail for Fred Harvey tourists. He saw the set out from Lees proposition as an underhanded attempt to Ferry in two boats, further the interests of the Santa Fe. 30 with the goal of In May 1908, Arthur Ringland, reaching Needles, having just been appointed District California where the Forester in Albuquerque, visited the runs Grand Canyon for two weeks where he through the Mohave conferred with officials of the Santa Fe Valley. Monett hit Railway Company and the Fred Harvey a rock, capsized, Company regarding the construction of and was carried an eight-mile scenic road along the South downstream. Russell Rim from El Tovar Hotel to Hermit Basin. continued in his boat Ringland approved plans for a new trail and rescued Monett. from the road terminus (Hermit’s Rest), to 31 At Hermit Rapids Hermit Creek. The new nine-mile trail they decided to would be constructed down the east side empty their boat and of Hermit Basin and would be known as let it down by lining. the . It would follow Hermit When they lost Creek to the river. control, it scooted As the government attempted downstream without management of national forests, them. They climbed it quickly found itself hampered up Hermit Creek to by the filing of numerous mining the Tonto, followed claims. The integrity of national the trail to where it forest policy was threatened by the intercepts Boucher’s long-standing national mining laws. trail, then hiked Performance of annual assessment François Matthes (center) and Louis Boucher (with antlers) next down Boucher Creek work on mining claims had the effect to a tripod-mounted planetable. Lantern slide, donated by Mrs. Edith Matthes. GRCA 20879. to the river in hopes of continuing an exclusive right of of spotting Russell’s possession. At the Grand Canyon, packed provisions down his trail for boat. Fortunately, men like Boucher claimed possession the survey crew at Boucher Camp. By Boucher was in camp; he often used of the land through mining and Christmas, Matthes and his sidekick his rock cabin as winter quarters. homestead claims on and below the Richard Evans had completed the Indeed, the boat was found swirling rim. These trail-blazing pioneers physically demanding work of surveying in an eddy at Boucher Rapids, came to be regarded by some as and could now devote their time to heavily damaged. For the next four trespassers upon the public domain, producing the Vishnu, Bright Angel, days, Boucher helped make repairs and the matter of fraudulent mining Shinumo and Supai topographic maps.24 and loaned the men his canvas claims, or locations held for purposes While attending a meeting boat so they could row upstream to other than those intended by the of the Knights of Columbus in retrieve their supplies at Hermit. The mining laws, was debated in courts Flagstaff, Boucher, still a farmer at two river runners then continued for years. heart, boasted of growing grapes, their journey, reaching Needles on Boucher, now in his 60s, was one of watermelons, cantaloupes, beets, February 8, 1908.27 many canyon pioneers caught up in onions, tomatoes, chiles, carrots, Boucher often volunteered to help his the struggle. In February 1909, Ranger cucumbers and parsnips, as well as fellow canyon aficionados; witness the Fenton asked Boucher to accompany having an orchard near his secluded search for McGonigle and Mclean who him and other government officials to lower camp.25 He had planted 75 fruit drowned and his rescue of the bedraggled his Dripping Springs camp, to the site trees in mescal pits south of his rock rivermen Monett and Russell. He was of a proposed tourist camp on Hermit cabin; the rings served as retention basins always friendly with the U.S. Forest Creek, and across to Indian Garden to to help with irrigation. He harvested Service and its precursor, the Division review various mining claims.32 A few oranges, nectarines, figs, apples, apricots, of Forestry, both of which regarded him months later, after verbally protesting to pomegranates, peaches and pears from as “a man of notable courtesy.”28 But local forest officials to no avail, Boucher his irrigated canyon orchard. About 100 he became disenchanted with the Forest resorted to writing letters to District yards northwest of his cabin, Boucher Service in 1908 when it began favoring Forester Ringland about his unfair sunk a mine shaft into the black rock.26 the Santa Fe Railway Company. He was treatment, accusing Fenton of acting as www.GrandCanyonHistory.org Grand Canyon Historical Society : 9 an agent for the Santa Fe. Cameron, then In a letter dated September 28, 1909 canyon domain. In fact, by the time newly elected to Congress, filed copies of from District Forester Ringland to he left, late summer in 1909, contracts these letters with the U.S. Forest Service Congressman Cameron, Ringland gave were being let for road improvements in Washington.33 his own version of Boucher’s grievances to Hermits Rest, for the reconstruction Cameron, who had been waging his to the Forest Service bureaucracy in of the trail to Hermit Rapids, and for own fight with the U.S. Forest Service, had Washington. He wrote: “I am not at all the establishment of a camp on Hermit lodged his protests with Chief Forester surprised at this letter (from Boucher, Creek. Gifford Pinchot.34 He opposed the Santa July 18th). I know Louis very well and Ringland went on to say, “It seems Fe-Fred Harvey monopoly, fought to hold while he is a mighty fine old man, yet like extremely unfortunate that the very fact of his mining claims and endured years of many guides who have lived very long my admiration for Boucher and his work, legal wrangling. He supported his friend in one country, somewhat peculiar. The which led me to offer him through Fenton Pete Berry at Grandview who suffered fact that Ranger Fenton offered Louis a chance to show the appreciation of the the same treatment as Boucher. As for employment to keep his trail in repair is Government, should be construed by him Boucher’s grievances, Cameron received perhaps due to my own suggestion when as an attempt to further the interests of less than satisfactory responses from I was at the Canyon. I felt that Boucher’s the Santa Fe Company.” Ringland further Associate Forester Overton Price, who admirable work on trails should receive explained, “I want the position of this defended Fenton, and who went so far as some recognition, and so I suggested to office clearly understood. There has been to suggest that Boucher may be “mentally Fenton that if the opportunity offered, he absolutely no attempt to deprive Boucher unbalanced.”35 In fact, Price, in his letter should give Louis a chance to work on of the advantages which have accrued to Cameron, concluded “This, no doubt, permanent improvements.”37 to him in the construction of his trail to accounts for his thinking that the Forest Unfortunately, Boucher had already Dripping Springs.”38 officers are not treating him fairly and are left the canyon. He knew that the Santa On his way to a new life, Boucher favoring the Harveys.”36 Fe had planned to intrude into his private visited Ringland in Albuquerque, and of

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10 : Grand Canyon Historical Society www.GrandCanyonHistory.org that meeting, the young forester said, “I am certain that whatever offense the old man feels is rather due to his fancy than to fact.” To counter any hard feelings from this unfortunate incident, Boucher was given a letter of introduction to the forest officer at Glenwood Springs, Colorado, much further upstream on the Colorado River, requesting that, if possible, he be given work at White River National Forest.39 With the rapid development of national forests, the Forest Service was trying to fill vacancies in its ranger force. There is no record of Boucher visiting the Glenwood Springs office.

Town of Mohrland in early 1900s. Courtesy of Emery County Archives. Boucher’s Later Years

From Albuquerque, Boucher traveled presented to the eye, so bewildering in its thought construction of a railroad to the coal-mining town of Trinidad, magnitude and so variegated in its color to Point Sublime was inevitable, the Colorado, begrudgingly, but most and shapes that neither paint brush nor project never progressed past the likely, by the Santa Fe Railway with words can do it justice.” This interview planning stage. It is ironic that he a dinner stop at East Las Vegas, took place at ’s Windsor promoted another railroad at the New Mexico and over Raton Pass to Hotel on South Main Street, where Grand Canyon, having been driven Trinidad in time for supper. With some Boucher had been absorbed in various from the South Rim by the Santa Fe 41 of the best coal deposits in Colorado, planning documents in his room. Railway. Perhaps his grandiose plan Boucher may have considered He went on to say, “For 6,888 feet the was just wishful thinking; it certainly applying for work in Trinidad’s cliff rises above the river bed, and from would have had a measure of revenge neighboring mining camps. Point Sublime colossal gashes spur from against the Santa Fe had it come to In December 1910, Boucher, who the main cavern in such a way as to make pass. still hailed from Trinidad, visited Salt the sight incomparable in its wild beauty. As it turned out, Boucher did Lake City, where he was interviewed Unfortunately, this north side view is now indeed get involved in a mining- by the Deseret Evening News about only accessible to the sturdy mountaineer, railroad operation. He ended up in his plans for a North Rim railroad. who is willing to share hardship, and the mining town of Mohrland in More specifically, he proposed a suffering, from starvation and thirst in Emery County, central Utah, site of 120-mile extension of the order to see the most astounding sight in a 1906 coal strike. Mohrland was 42 and Rio Grande Railway from America today.” established in 1907 as a company Marysvale, Utah to Point Sublime. Boucher’s solution was a railroad town, 14 miles south of Price, in Cedar With such railroad connections, extension to Point Sublime. He added that Creek Canyon. The mine featured Boucher believed tourists could visit there was another economic advantage to a 17-foot thick seam of high-grade the Grand Canyon, Salt Lake City such a rail line—support for the mining coal, part of the vast Wasatch Plateau and Yellowstone all on the same industry as vast coal, iron and other coalfield. The four leading organizers trip. Already, two surveys had been mineral resources in northern Arizona of the town were James Mays, Walter conducted and detailed planning had and southern Utah only awaited “the Orem, Moroni Heiner, and Windsor 43 begun.40 advent of the steam horse.” Rice—principal owners of the Castle Boucher explained to the reporter At the end of the interview, Boucher Valley Coal Company; the town name that 30,000 tourists visited the Grand exercised some bragging rights, “I was was a combination of the first initials Canyon’s South Rim in the past year but the first man to build a trail from the cliff of their last names with “land” added “it is only from the north side that the down its almost perpendicular side to the to the end.45 The company also built the incomprehensible grandeur of the great river bottom. This trail, which takes a zig- Castle Valley Railroad from Mohrland gorge can be seen.” Speaking from his zag course and in places is hewn out of through Hiawatha to Helper,46 and by own personal experience when he guided solid rock is seven and a half miles long.”44 1910 was shipping 600 tons of coal per the Matthes survey party to the North Rim, He was obviously talking about day. Miners worked eight hours a day, he said, “From Point Sublime a picture is his Silver Bell Trail. While Boucher earning $3.25 an hour.47 www.GrandCanyonHistory.org Grand Canyon Historical Society : 11 Boucher first went to work for the responded but then heard nothing from My Dear Mrs. G. Saffitts & Son O.J. Ely Construction Company, established Louis for six weeks. Hanks by Louis D. Boucher Aug. in 1906 to construct the railroads needed When Boucher finally did respond, 10, 1933.” When Boucher signed the to open new coalfields in and he reported that he had become deathly cardboard backing in 1933, he was Utah. In October 1908, the company was ill in April with La Grippe, the French going on 86 years old. contracted to grade a roadbed for the name for the influenza virus. Boucher Also, in 1933, a mysterious Southern Utah Railway. It hired 150 men wrote, “For a few days I thought it was snippet appeared in at least seven and 50 teams of mules and horses to draw all off for the old man.” He was infected western newspapers. It stated “The scrapers, plows and wagons, with the goal well before the devastating Spanish Flu Hermit Trail, that winds along the of being ready to lay standard gauge rails epidemic of 1918. After being bedridden canyon’s rim, was named for an old in early 1909. The 1910 census shows for several weeks, he recovered and Frenchman, Louis Boucher, who lived Boucher, widowed and working as a house went back to work in the mine and at the down below the rim… looking for 54 carpenter, so his job may not have been powder house. gold. He never found gold, so he died mining but instead using his carpentry Boucher’s letter also indicated that looking, and had a life worthwhile. 48 skills to help build company housing. while he was sick, the Castle Valley His grave is the biggest and finest in At this time, there was some speculation Coal Company sold its mine and railroad the world, somewhere beside some that the railroad might rival the Santa to U.S. Mining, Smelting & Refining canyon trail.”59 Fe Railway on the South Rim to serve Company headquartered in Boston (still tourists on the North Rim (Boucher’s operating today). In 1912, the company * * * idea) while reaching copper deposits was surveying for an 82-mile rail line on the Kaibab Plateau.49 In June 1910, to tap into the Salt Lake & Los Angeles What an interesting story this man when Ely Construction completed its Railroad. Despite being in his mid-60s, could have told if only a history- railbed project and moved its workforce Boucher thought he would find plenty minded notetaker had been able to and equipment to Pueblo, Colorado for a of work in the Mohrland railyard. In interview him before his voice was canal project, Boucher went to work for closing, Boucher wrote that he missed stilled. Yet no canyon pioneer stands the Castle Valley Coal Company.50 the Grand Canyon but “it is all off with more honored. His name is indelibly This company was incorporated me and Arizona, the Harveys and their etched in the Grand Canyon—in on July 12, 1909. It owned 4,000 acres click…they got what they wanted.”55 the Hermit Shale, in Hermit Basin of valuable coal land, 1,200 acres of Long after Boucher left the and Trail, at Hermits Rest, and at ranch land, and the Mohrland townsite. canyon, a coffee grinder and an old Hermit Rapids where Hermit Creek It also owned the Mohrland Mercantile saddle were found in his rock cabin in spills into the Colorado River — and Company and the Castle Valley Railroad Long Canyon.56 In August 1961, a park downstream — at Boucher Rapids, which connected Mohrland to the Denver patrol reported finding several old bottles Creek, and Canyon. The spirit of the and Rio Grande mainline. It had two and shovels in Boucher’s mine, likely hermit — Louis Désiré Boucher — locomotives and rolling stock, and 150 the Bummer copper mine whose tunnel lives on in the Grand Canyon.60 employees, including 60 miners, who extended fifty feet into the rock wall. shared company housing (four-room The patrol also recognized Boucher’s cottages, cabins and dormitories).51 With rock cabin, roof long gone, hidden in the a growing market for coal and ready east- mesquite. All that remains now is a stone Endnotes west rail transport, Boucher must have foundation.57 seen his new employer as having a solid There are very few additional 1. Jean Louis Boucher (pronounced base for long-term success. records of this elusive, reticent “Boo-Shay”) was born on April 24, Boucher returned to the South canyon pioneer, but one is especially 1825 at Saint-Constant, Laprairie, Rim for a brief visit in 1912, signing intriguing. In the Grand Canyon Québec. the Grandview Hotel register as Museum Collection, there is a framed 2. Canadian marriage register of “Louis Boucher, Mohrland, Utah.”52 oil painting, a canyon landscape on St-Rémi-de-la-Salle M-18 and 1881 His visit at Grandview appears to be the canvas, presented to Boucher, that census. beginning of a business relationship with reads “Louis Akin – July 7, 1907 – To 3. Personal communication with Pete Berry who traded with the Navajo My Good Friend Louis Boucher.”58 Helene Liard, archivist, La Societe for rugs and blankets. Upon his return This could have been a gift from the artist d’histoire de Sherbrooke, Sher- to Mohrland, Boucher wrote to Pete that in appreciation for a trail ride with the brooke, Québec, on June 11, 1992. he was in good health, living “with the old canyon guide. Louis cherished this 4. Sophie Mélanise Bérard was born saints”, and that he had sold the Navajo memento, with its frame showing many March 15, 1855 in Ascot Corner, rugs he brought back from Grandview. years of considerable wear, but then late in Le Haut-Saint-François (The Upper He planned to order more, in fact, he life he gave it away. Penciled on the back St. Francis), just northeast of Sher- wanted a large rug like the one he saw in of this painting is some rather awkward brooke. the Grandview Hotel dining room.53 Pete wording: “Presented as Property of 5. Deed of Lease, dated August 9,

12 : Grand Canyon Historical Society www.GrandCanyonHistory.org 1890, Louis D. Boucher to Eli LeFehn. including , Cocopa town was abandoned. 6 Hovey, H.C., “On the Rim and In Point, Dripping Springs, Hermit 48. At some point Boucher became the Depths of the Grand Canyon,” Basin, Hermit Creek, Point Sublime, a naturalized U.S. citizen as he was Scientific American, August 6, 1892, Shiva Temple and Tonto Trail. Co- registered to vote in Arizona in 1910. 87-89. conino Sun, August 25, 1906. 49. Salt Lake Herald-Republican, De- 7. Hovey, “On the Rim.” 21. Francois Matthes field notebooks, cember 10, 1909. 8. Accession No. 1031, Berry Papers, January 1, 1902 – December 31, 1904, 50. The Carbon County News, Price, Museum Collection, Grand Canyon Bancroft Library, University of Cali- Utah, February 4, 1910. National Park. fornia – Berkeley. 51. Salt Lake Mining Review, June 9. In Hance Canyon there is an in- 22. Ibid 30, 1911. scription carved into a rock wall that 23. Coconino Sun, August 8, 1903. 52. Louis Boucher registered at the reads “Col. Frank Hull 1884.” Col. 24. Francois Matthes field notebooks. Grandview Hotel on January 12, Hull also signed Hance’s guest book 25. Coconino Sun, July 10, 1908. 1912, staying in room 28. Grandview on August 19, 1892 and again on 26. Ibid. Hotel Register, Kolb Manuscript 197, September 13, 1892. 27. Russell, Charles, article pub- Special Collections Library, Northern 10. Rain Tanks, located near the lished in February 16, 1908 Salt Lake Arizona University, Flagstaff. present-day Grand Canyon Airport, Tribune. 53. Letter, Louis Boucher to Pete was built by the Hull brothers, ac- 28. Cameron Papers, AZ127, Box Berry, dated March 8, 1912, History cording to Daniel L. Hogan inter- 4, Folder 6, University of Arizona Files, Grand Canyon National Park. view, February 3, 1939, History Files, Library, Tucson. 54. Letter, Boucher to Berry, dated Grand Canyon National Park. 29. Ibid. May 10, 1912, History Files, Grand 11. Boucher located the Bummer 30. Arthur C. Ringland (1882-1981) Canyon National Park. Mining Claim on February 18, 1893 was recruited by Chief Forester 55. Ibid. and the Crazy Horse Mining Claim Gifford Pinchot and appointed the 56. Letter from GCNP Superinten- on July 13, 1893. first Southwestern District Forester; dent Harold C. Bryant, PhD, to M. 12. Corle, Edwin, Listen, Bright Angel, Ringland served from 1908 to 1916. J. Clubb, dated Jan. 7, 1949, History (1946), 227. 31. Coconino Sun, May 28, 1909. Files, Grand Canyon National Park. 13. James, George Wharton, The 32. Cameron Papers, AZ127, Box 57. Letter from Park Naturalist John Grand Canon of Arizona, (1910 and 4, Folder 5, University of Arizona Stockert to Katherine Stoker, dated 1912), 46. Library, Tucson. Feb. 15, 1965, History Files, Grand 14. Coconino Sun, August 8, 1903. 33. Cameron Papers, AZ127, Box Canyon National Park. 15. Edwin McKee, Park Naturalist, 4, Folder 6, University of Arizona 58. Louis Benton Akin (1868-1913) Memo, History Files, Grand Canyon Library, Tucson. lived in Flagstaff in 1907 where he National Park. McKee documented a 34. Pinchot descended from an im- had a studio in Babbitt Bros. store. 1933 meeting with Edward W. Mur- migrant family of French Huguenots 59. The Herald-Journal, Logan, Utah, phy of New York City, who with two and studied at the National Forestry February 27, 1933, and repeated in others, helped Boucher build the trail Academy in France. newspapers of Ogden, Tucson, Fort to Dripping Springs. 35. Cameron Papers, AZ127, Tucson. Worth, El Paso and others. 16. James, The Grand Canon of Ari- 36. Ibid. 60. The author used many genea- zona, 45. 37. Ibid. logical records, too many to list in 17. Ibid. 38. Cameron Papers, AZ127, Tucson. these notes, including information 18 Louis Boucher located the Silver 39. Ibid. from the following online sources: Bell Trail on January 7, 1902. Promis- 40. Deseret Evening News, Decem- Genealogy of Canada, LDS Family cuous Record Book 1, p239, Coconi- ber 20, 1910. Search website, and Ancestry.com. It no County, Arizona. 41. Ibid. is with considerable gratitude that he 19. Ralph Cameron registered what 42. Ibid. thanks Kim Besom for access to Park was then known as the River View 43. Ibid. archives, Wally Book for French- Toll Road on March 19, 1902. At 44. Ibid. to-English translations, and Kris the time, this long meandering trail 45. Zehnder, Chuck, A Guide to Thacher for capturing many online ran nearly 62 miles along the top of Carbon County Coal Camps and Ghost documents. Granite Gorge from Red Canyon to Towns, 36. Slate Creek. Promiscuous Record 46. UtahRails.net, accessed August Book 1, p254-255, Coconino County, 23, 2020. Arizona. 47. With the boom-and-bust nature 20. On May 2, 1906, the U.S. Geo- of the coal industry, Mohrland began graphical Board fixed the names of its decline in the mid-1920s; by 1938 many features of the Grand Canyon, the mines were shut down and the www.GrandCanyonHistory.org Grand Canyon Historical Society : 13 Introducing Board Member Helen Ranney

OP: When were you first Some friends and I hiked introduced to the Grand Hermit to Tanner in 2017. Canyon? Originally, we were going to go South Bass to Tanner but HR: I grew up in an Army there was no water along family and we moved around the Gems. Honestly, I cannot a lot, I think we moved get enough, and my favorite every thirteen months. In section of the Canyon so the summer of 1967, my far is the dad received orders for Ft. from Grandview to Tanner. Derussy, in Honolulu, Hawaii. I do hope to get down the We were living in Ft. Belvoir, sooner Virginia at that time. He rather than later. always had the philosophy ‘why fly when you can OP: When did you get drive’ so we drove across the interested in Grand Canyon country from Virginia down history? to Florida and eventually to Travis Air Force Base in HR: Again, it was Gary Ladd northern California. Along the – who was attending the way I saw Monument Valley, very first history symposium Petrified Forest and the Grand in 2002 that was being Canyon. I remember the sponsored by the Grand Desert View Watchtower very Canyon Historical Society. well (I was just about to turn We met him there for a hike five years old) and how my terrified way too much of it. Never again! the next day. He kept telling me mom held the back of my shirt as I After that, I kept coming back “for how amazing and wonderful the looked down at the Colorado River. work” that always included big day symposium was. So I was happy to My dad refused to stop at Flintstones hikes. We would hike to Phantom be a part of the 2007 symposium – I Village (I was a huge Flintstone fan!) Ranch and back in one day. This along with Michael Quinn, filmed but he did take us to Disneyland was the only way I could get to the half of the presentations. In 2012, I which was kind of fun. bottom as I still had a child at home again was a volunteer with a great who was at St. Mary’s High School team of people including Amy Horn. OP: Did hiking and backpacking and it was better that I came home At the 2016 Symposium, I was the play a part in your growing interest at night… Co-Chair with Dave Mortenson. I just in the Canyon? love the stories we get to hear! OP: How many backpack trips have HR: Yes! I was the Sales Manager you made in the Canyon? OP: Do any particular historical at Arizona Highways Magazine from figures pique your interest? 1999-2004 and I got to know a lot HR: I haven’t done as many as others of the contributing photographers. because of my late start with my HR: I think the Kolb brothers hold Gary Ladd became a very good Grand Canyon life. But I think I’ve a strong interest for me since I have friend after we worked on done around 20 multi-day backpacks brought so many donors to the Park promoting/selling his book “Grand and so many day hikes that I cannot on tours through their studio and Canyon: Time Below the Rim” In give you a number (living there home. My husband (Wayne Ranney) 2001, he kindly took a few of us had its advantages as does living in actually met Emery in 1976 and he down to Bright Angel Campground Flagstaff) and am now even leading told me stories about how after Emery for two nights. Yeah, I was hooked. backpacks for the Grand Canyon died, one of his boyhood friends A few months later Gary said I was Conservancy Field Institute and from California (Mark Jeffers) had ready for a real backpack. So…he the Museum of Northern Arizona followed him out to the canyon and took me down the Grandview Trail Ventures. I’m almost done with the was hired as Emery’s final caretaker. after 3 feet of snow had fallen. Yikes! Tonto Trail – just have to do that short Mark was later asked by Edith Kolb I carried down borrowed gear and section between Hermit and Boucher. (Emery’s daughter) to caretake the

14 : Grand Canyon Historical Society www.GrandCanyonHistory.org house. He got word that there was to to volunteer more as time allows. It HR: Yes, I am fortunate to have worked be an estate sale for Emery’s furniture truly gives me a better appreciation for Grand Canyon Conservancy and if any of his friends wanted to buy for our hard-working backcountry (formerly Grand Canyon Association) things before-hand they could. Then, rangers! for 10 ½ years. I actually lived at the by chance, on a San Juan river trip, South Rim for 3 ½ years! Not only did I met one of Wayne’s friends (Norm OP: What don’t most people know GCC introduce me to many generous Henderson) who had bought Emery’s about you? people but it also allowed me to gain kitchen hutch in 1976. He owned it a deeper connection to Grand Canyon for about 30 years but mentioned on HR: Well, I am a mother of three – this place that has brought me much the river trip that he had no more use amazing people – Sarah, Valerie peace (and Wayne Ranney!) since my for it. I arranged to have this piece of and Zach. And, thanks to them, friendship with Gary Ladd. Thanks furniture brought back to the canyon I have seven (yes, that is seven!) Gary for taking a chance on a newbie in 2007 as a donation. It still has the grandchildren ages 17-3. If all goes for a three-day hike to the bottom of original packaging tag stapled on the well this summer and river trips are the Grand Canyon! back – addressed from Indiana to the running again, I will take my oldest Kolb house! granddaughter, Micaela who is 14 and getting ready for high school OP: That’s incredible! Anything this fall down the Colorado River else about the canyon you love? with AzRA (I work for AzRA). We will even have one night at Phantom HR: I LOVE day-hiking to Phantom Ranch before hiking out together. I Ranch for a glass of tea. Sounds crazy, cannot wait to get those grandkiddos I know but I still enjoy doing this even into the Canyon! though I am a bit slower than before. I am also an inner-Canyon volunteer OP: Anything else we should know for the National Park Service. I hope about you and the Grand Canyon?

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