- Local call number
- nm311g000s000b002f0022i001
- Media type
- Text
- Creator
- Holmstrom, Haldane, 1909-1946
- Title
- Diary of Buzz Holmstrom's trip down the Colorado. Oct. 4 to Nov. 20, 1937
- Original creation date
- 1937
- Repository
- Northern Arizona University. Cline Library.
- Use
- Digital surrogates are the property of the repository. Reproduction requires permission.
- Collection name
- Holmstrom, Buzz
- Content Summary
- Diary of Buzz Holmstrom's river trip from Green River, Utah, October 4, 1937 through the Grand Canyon, November 20, 1937.
- Biography/History
- Buzz Holmstrom, 1909-1946, was an early river runner. He was born in 1909 in a logging camp in the southern coastal forests of Oregon. He was raised in the area of Coquille, Oregon. In 1934 he began building boats and running whitewater rivers. He achieved national fame in 1937 when he built a boat and ran it down the Green and Colorado Rivers, from Green River, Wyoming, to Boulder Dam, the first to do it alone.
- Finding Aid
- http://aao.lib.asu.edu/ViewRecordFrame.jsp?record=0000000472
- Subjects
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Boatmen--Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
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Boats and boating--Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
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White-water canoeing--Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
- Places
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Green River (Utah)--Description and travel
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Little Colorado River (N.M. and Ariz.)--Description and travel
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Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)--Description and travel
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Glen Canyon (Utah and Ariz.)--Description and travel
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Grand Canyon (Ariz.)--Description and travel
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Flagstaff (Ariz.)--Description and travel
- People
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Holmstrom, Haldane (Buzz), 1909-1946--Journeys--Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)--Diaries
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