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Grandson of famed Canyon explorer dies
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"I guess I've taken more pictures of faces and mules than another living man." Emery Kolb once said of the 3.4 million people who stood before the Kolbs' lenses over the years.

Pictures in the Grand Canyon
http://www.grandcanyontreks.org/kolbs.htm

The Discovery of Cheyava Falls near Clear Creek Canyon by Emery Kolb
http://www.grandcanyontreks.org/cheyava.htm

Kolb Brothers - Grand Canyon Pioneers
http://www.kaet.asu.edu/kolb/thestory.html

Book, worth reading: Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico by E. L. Kolb. Available on Amazon, and Abebooks, used, very cheap.

Visited the Kolb Studio in mid-May and they have an interesting B&W movie showing contentiously. The brothers were very adventurous.

azbackpackr wrote:Book, worth reading: Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico by E. L. Kolb. Available on Amazon, and Abebooks, used, very cheap.

Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico is available free online in several formats. Search for the title on:
Internet Archive http://archive.org
Open Library http://openlibrary.org
Project Gutenberg http://gutenberg.org
Read Central eBook has it in several formats. I recently downloaded it as a free pdf file. Interesting reading.
http://www.readcentral.com
And Grand Canyon Historical Society has a diary of the trip in an illustration web article named
WITH THE WINGS OF AN ANGEL, A Biography of Ellsworth and Emery Kolb - Photographers of Grand Canyon
http://www.grandcanyonhistory.org/kolb.html#PREFACE

"We wanted to make the 'Big Trip,' as we called it; a pictorial record of the entire series of canyons on the Green and Colorado Rivers." Ellsworth Kolb.

After the trip, Emory took a movie of it on the road (like Goldwater years later). In Chicago, Emery caught the eye of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell and his son-in-law Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor, the head of The National Geographic Society. This led to an almost entire issue of the magazine devoted to the Kolbs' adventures on the Colorado.
Ellsworth wrote the book the following year.

Sun Ray wrote:Visited the Kolb Studio in mid-May and they have an interesting B&W movie showing contentiously. The brothers were very adventurous

They also successfully navigated the Green and Colorado Rivers in 1911, filming their journey. The film ran in the Kolb Studio in the Grand Canyon from 1915 until Emery's death in 1976

One of the longest continuously run movies ever...