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Kent Frost photograph collection, 1914-2008

Overview of the Collection

Photographer
Frost, Kent Smith, 1917-2013
Title
Kent Frost photograph collection
Dates
1914-2008 (inclusive)
Quantity
15 boxes
Collection Number
P1286
Summary
Kent Frost (1917-2013) was a Utah river runner, tour guide, and author who lobbied for the creation of Canyonlands National Park. This collection consists of images of the Frost family and friends; images of Kent Frost's mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and service in the United States Navy; and images from his explorations of southern Utah's outdoors including river runs, camping, and his Canyonland Jeep tours.
Repository
University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860

Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu
Access Restrictions

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Languages
English
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Biographical Note

Kent Smith Frost was born in Monticello, Utah on January 17, 1917 to Seraphine Smith and Clarence Alfred Frost. Frost grew up exploring Southern Utah, and began working as a boatman for Normal Nevills in the late 1930s. A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, he served a mission to the Midwestern states. Frost served in the United States Navy on the USS Otus during WWII. He returned to San Juan County, Utah after his service. Frost was married to Violette Dixon from 1943-1946, and in 1948 he married Fern Binns.

Frost founded Kent Frost Jeep Tours in 1949 and began taking tourists on guided explorations of southern Utah. Later, he and Fern operated Kent Frost Canyonlands Tours. Kent and Fern Frost lobbied for the creation of Canyonlands National Park. Frost wrote numerous articles for Desert Magazine, Arizona Highways, and other publications. In 1971 he published My Canyonlands: I Had the Freedom of It, a personal account of his youth exploring southern Utah. Frost was recognized for his contributions to river running by numerous organizations: in 1985, he was a charter inductee to the Utah Travel Council’s Hall of Fame and in 2004 received the David Brower Award from the Glen Canyon Institute.

Kent Frost died on May 16, 2013.

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Content Description

The Kent Frost photograph collection consists of 15 boxes containing images of the Frost family and friends, images of Kent Frost's mission and of his time in the military, and images from his explorations of Utah's outdoors including river runs, camping, and his Canyonland Jeep tours through southern Utah. Box 1 contains oversize prints. Box 2 is a photograph album. Boxes 3-8 contain photos from outdoor trips and general family photos sorted chronologically by year. Boxes 8-9 contain images related to family and friends. Several folders in Boxes 7 and 8 are digital only and are jpeg or tif file format. Box 10 contains images from river trips and other outdoor adventures sorted by photographer. Boxes 11-14 contain mostly slides and images from Kent Frost Jeep Tours and other outdoor adventures. Box 15 contains a general assortment of family photos and river trips.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances.

Permission to publish material from the Kent Frost photograph collection must be obtained from the Special Collections Manuscript Curator.

Preferred Citation

Initial Citation: Kent Frost photograph collection, P1286, Box [ ]. Special Collections and Archives. University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library. Salt Lake City, Utah.

Following Citations: P1286.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

Arranged by subject

Acquisition Information

Donated by Kent Frost in 2006. Addendums in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2013.

Processing Note

Processed by Special Collections staff.

Separated Materials

Example: See also the Kent Frost papers (ACCN 1687) in the Manuscripts Division of Special Collections.

Related Materials

This collection forms part of the River Running Archive, which is part of the S.J. Quinney Outdoor Recreation Archive.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Description: Kent and Fern Frost
    Container: Box 1, Folder 1
  • Description: Military: Kent in Group
    Container: Box 1, Folder 2
  • Description: Green River, 1996
    Container: Box 1, Folder 3
  • Description: San Juan River, 1952
    Container: Box 1, Folder 4
  • Description: Hand Tinted
    Container: Box 1, Folder 5
  • Description: Standing Rocks
    Container: Box 1, Folder 6
  • Description: Photograph Album, 1930s-1940s
    Container: Box 2, Folder 1
  • Description: 1914
    Container: Box 3, Folder 1
  • Description: "The Frosts at Old La Sal Ranch," 1920s
    Container: Box 3, Folder 2
  • Description: 1930s
    Container: Box 3, Folder 3
  • Description: 1940s
    Container: Box 3, Folder 4
  • Description: 1950-1953
    Container: Box 3, Folder 5
  • Description: 1954-1956
    Container: Box 3, Folder 6
  • Description: 1956
    Container: Box 3, Folder 7
  • Description: 1957
    Container: Box 3, Folder 8
  • Description: 1958
    Container: Box 4, Folder 1
  • Description: 1959
    Container: Box 4, Folder 2
  • Description: 1960
    Container: Box 4, Folder 3
  • Description: 1961
    Container: Box 4, Folder 4
  • Description: 1962
    Container: Box 4, Folder 5
  • Description: 1962 (2)
    Container: Box 4, Folder 6
  • Description: 1963
    Container: Box 5, Folder 1
  • Description: 1964
    Container: Box 5, Folder 2
  • Description: 1965
    Container: Box 5, Folder 3
  • Description: 1966
    Container: Box 5, Folder 4
  • Description: 1967
    Container: Box 5, Folder 5
  • Description: 1968
    Container: Box 5, Folder 6
  • Description: 1969
    Container: Box 5, Folder 7
  • Description: Canyonlands, 1970s
    Container: Box 6, Folder 1
  • Description: 1970
    Container: Box 6, Folder 2
  • Description: 1971
    Container: Box 6, Folder 3
  • Description: 1972
    Container: Box 6, Folder 4
  • Description: 1973
    Container: Box 6, Folder 5
  • Description: 1974
    Container: Box 6, Folder 6
  • Description: Ansel Adams Photo Trip, 1974
    Container: Box 6, Folder 7
  • Description: 1975
    Container: Box 6, Folder 8
  • Description: 1976
    Container: Box 6, Folder 9
  • Description: 1977
    Container: Box 6, Folder 10
  • Description: 1978
    Container: Box 6, Folder 11
  • Description: Mormon Trail, Christmas, 1978
    Container: Box 6, Folder 12
  • Description: 1979
    Container: Box 6, Folder 13
  • Description: Vacation, 1979
    Container: Box 6, Folder 14
  • Description: 1980
    Container: Box 6, Folder 15
  • Description: 1981
    Container: Box 6, Folder 16
  • Description: 1982
    Container: Box 6, Folder 17
  • Description: 1983
    Container: Box 6, Folder 18
  • Description: 1984
    Container: Box 6, Folder 19
  • Description: 1985
    Container: Box 6, Folder 20
  • Description: Camping, 1986
    Container: Box 6, Folder 21
  • Description: 1987
    Container: Box 6, Folder 22
  • Description: 1988
    Container: Box 7, Folder 1
  • Description: 1989
    Container: Box 7, Folder 2
  • Description: 1990
    Container: Box 7, Folder 3
  • Description: 1991
    Container: Box 7, Folder 4
  • Description: 1992
    Container: Box 7, Folder 5
  • Description: 1993
    Container: Box 7, Folder 6
  • Description: 1994
    Container: Box 7, Folder 7
  • Description: Old Timers River Trip, Grand Canyon, Colorado River, September 8-10, 1994
    Container: Box 7, Folder 8
  • Description: 1995
    Container: Box 7, Folder 9
  • Description: 1996
    Container: Box 7, Folder 10
  • Description: 1997
    Container: Box 7, Folder 11
  • Description: 1998
    Container: Box 7, Folder 12
  • Description: 1999
    Container: Box 7, Folder 13
  • Description: Veteran's Day, 1999. Digital only
    Container: Box 7, Folder 13b
  • Description: 2000
    Container: Box 7, Folder 14
  • Description: 2001
    Container: Box 8, Folder 1
  • Description: 2002
    Container: Box 8, Folder 2
  • Description: 2003
    Container: Box 8, Folder 3
  • Description: 2005
    Container: Box 8, Folder 4
  • Description: 2006
    Container: Box 8, Folder 5
  • Description: Kent's 90th Birthday, 2007
    Container: Box 8, Folder 6
  • Description: Inkjet Print, 2008
    Container: Box 8, Folder 7
  • Description: Photos for Marion Krogmen
    Container: Box 8, Folder 8
  • Description: Portraits
    Container: Box 8, Folder 9
  • Description: Frost Family Portraits and Group Photos
    Container: Box 8, Folder 10
  • Description: Family Album Photos, 1938-1949
    Container: Box 8, Folder 11
  • Description: Family Photos, 1917-1954
    Container: Box 8, Folder 12
  • Description: Family Photos
    Container: Box 8, Folder 13
  • Description: General
    Container: Box 8, Folder 14
  • Description: General Landscapes and People
    Container: Box 9, Folder 1
  • Description: Jake the Snake
    Container: Box 9, Folder 2
  • Description: Rings and Jewelry
    Container: Box 9, Folder 3
  • Description: Kents Crafts and Guns, Guns and Hunting Weapons
    Container: Box 9, Folder 4
  • Description: Wildwife and Hunting
    Container: Box 9, Folder 5
  • Description: Home
    Container: Box 9, Folder 6
  • Description: Garden, Yard
    Container: Box 9, Folder 7
  • Description: Travel
    Container: Box 9, Folder 8
  • Description: South Africa
    Container: Box 9, Folder 9
  • Description: Postcards
    Container: Box 9, Folder 10
  • Description: Greeting Cards
    Container: Box 9, Folder 11
  • Description: Wedding Announcements
    Container: Box 9, Folder 12
  • Description: Susan Jameson Photos
    Container: Box 9, Folder 13
  • Description: Family and Friends
    Container: Box 9, Folder 14
  • Description: River Pictures, 1946-1947
    Container: Box 10, Folder 1
  • Description: Recreation
    Container: Box 10, Folder 2
  • Description: Howard Thomas Photos, 1957-1959
    Container: Box 10, Folder 3
  • Description: Goldman Photos
    Container: Box 10, Folder 4
  • Description: Chuck Shelton Photos, 1959
    Container: Box 10, Folder 5
  • Description: Frank Wright Photos
    Container: Box 10, Folder 6
  • Description: Mimi and Pete Wilson Photos, 1987-2000
    Container: Box 10, Folder 7
  • Description: Rita Plahetha Photos
    Container: Box 10, Folder 8
  • Description: Paul F. Gilbert Photos, 1990-2000
    Container: Box 10, Folder 9
  • Description: Bill and Barbara Foreman Photos
    Container: Box 10, Folder 10
  • Description: Elise W. Crosby Photos
    Container: Box 10, Folder 11
  • Description: Lucy Clark Photos, 2002
    Container: Box 10, Folder 12
  • Description: Ralph and Mary Boesel Photos, 1962, 1988
    Container: Box 10, Folder 13
  • Description: Barbara Jones Photos, 2000
    Container: Box 10, Folder 14
  • Description: Red and Marie Barlieb Photos, 1989
    Container: Box 10, Folder 15
  • Description: Eric Miraglia Photos, 1989
    Container: Box 10, Folder 16
  • Description: Sue Brooks Photos
    Container: Box 10, Folder 17
  • Description: George and Doc Bell (Bell Brothers) Photos, 1987
    Container: Box 10, Folder 18
  • Description: Jeannette Krogman Photos White River Trip, 2003
    Container: Box 10, Folder 19
  • Description: Marion and Sherman Spear Photo
    Container: Box 10, Folder 20
  • Description: Marian Krogmann Trips
    Container: Box 10, Folder 21
  • Description: Recreation, 1940s-1960s
    Container: Box 10, Folder 22
  • Description: Recreation, 1960s-1980s
    Container: Box 10, Folder 23
  • Description: Recreation, 1990s-2000s
    Container: Box 10, Folder 24
  • Description: Petroglyphs
    Container: Box 11, Folder 1
  • Description: Cany Salt Creek, Needles, Maze Slides
    Container: Box 11, Folder 2
  • Description: Slideshow, 1981
    Container: Box 11, Folder 3
  • Description: Needles
    Container: Box 11, Folder 4
  • Description: River Trips
    Container: Box 11, Folder 5
  • Description: River Trips (2)
    Container: Box 11, Folder 6
  • Description: Grand Gulch, General
    Container: Box 11, Folder 7
  • Description: Tour Promotion for Travel Shows
    Container: Box 12, Folder 1
  • Description: Travel, 1947-1956
    Container: Box 12, Folder 2
  • Description: Standing Rocks
    Container: Box 12, Folder 3
  • Description: Hale Swinson, 1964 Needles Trip and Grandview Upheaval Dome
    Container: Box 12, Folder 4
  • Description: Blue Mountain Drive, October 10, 1961
    Container: Box 12, Folder 5
  • Description: Ski
    Container: Box 12, Folder 6
  • Description: "Mostly Extras by M. Beck"
    Container: Box 12, Folder 7
  • Description: "M. Beck with 6611 Haskell Dan Nup Calif. 1956"
    Container: Box 12, Folder 8
  • Description: Rose Parade, 1961
    Container: Box 12, Folder 9
  • Description: Kent Frost Jeep Tours, Monticello, Utah
    Container: Box 12, Folder 10
  • Description: Kent Frost (Ralph)
    Container: Box 13, Folder 1
  • Description: Fern Frost, Bill Coshour, Kent Frost
    Container: Box 13, Folder 2
  • Description: Goldman and Frost Raft Trip, Glen Canyon, Navajo Mountain 1961, and Others
    Container: Box 13, Folder 3
  • Description: Camping
    Container: Box 13, Folder 4
  • Description: Navajo Land
    Container: Box 13, Folder 5
  • Description: Morehead
    Container: Box 13, Folder 6
  • Description: Extras, Monticello Barrier Canyon, Morehead
    Container: Box 13, Folder 7
  • Description: Don Finicom
    Container: Box 13, Folder 8
  • Description: Mountain Men Chet Knight Air Stream Trailer
    Container: Box 13, Folder 9
  • Description: Land of Rock in Sand and Lake Canyon
    Container: Box 13, Folder 10
  • Description: Colorado River
    Container: Box 13, Folder 11
  • Description: Unker Creek Rapid 1947, Nevills Expedition
    Container: Box 13, Folder 12
  • Description: Early Slides, 1949
    Container: Box 13, Folder 13
  • Description: Early Pictures, 1956, Rita Plahetha
    Container: Box 13, Folder 14
  • Description: Zion Canyon Hike, 1959
    Container: Box 13, Folder 15
  • Description: Green Camp Trailer, 1965
    Container: Box 13, Folder 16
  • Description: Ski Lift Abejo Mountains, 1966
    Container: Box 13, Folder 17
  • Description: Robbers Roost Trip, June 2, 1968
    Container: Box 13, Folder 18
  • Description: FawweBB, 1969
    Container: Box 13, Folder 19
  • Description: 1971 Blazer March, 1973 Monument Valley, Needles, Baja
    Container: Box 13, Folder 20
  • Description: Hawaii, 1974
    Container: Box 13, Folder 21
  • Description: Rendezvous, Henrys Fork, Green River Wyoming, 1975
    Container: Box 13, Folder 22
  • Description: Tours Canyonlands, 1975
    Container: Box 13, Folder 23
  • Description: August 25, 1975
    Container: Box 13, Folder 24
  • Description: August 28, 1976 Canyonlands Tours Trip, New 1976 Ford Car
    Container: Box 14, Folder 1
  • Description: Winter 1979
    Container: Box 14, Folder 2
  • Description: Bell Brothers
    Container: Box 14, Folder 3
  • Description: Bell Brothers, December 2, 1976, Landscapes
    Container: Box 14, Folder 4
  • Description: George Bell, July 18, 1981, Bell Brother Photos, 1981
    Container: Box 14, Folder 5
  • Description: Bell Brother and Yellowstone National Park, July 18, 1981
    Container: Box 14, Folder 6
  • Description: Photos of Notebook Pages
    Container: Box 14, Folder 7
  • Description: Kent Frost Jeep Tours, Negatives
    Container: Box 14, Folder 8
  • Description: Kent Frost Jeep Tours, Negatives
    Container: Box 14, Folder 9
  • Description: Kent Frost Jeep Tours, Negatives
    Container: Box 14, Folder 10
  • Description: Nevills, 1949
    Container: Box 14, Folder 11
  • Description: Camp at Dall House, 1967, Kent Frost Tours
    Container: Box 14, Folder 12
  • Description: Maxine Frost Collection
    Container: Box 14, Folder 13
  • Description: General
    Container: Box 14, Folder 14
  • Description: General (2)
    Container: Box 14, Folder 15
  • Description: General, 1960-1990
    Container: Box 14, Folder 16
  • Description: J. Frank Wright
    Container: Box 15, Folder 1
  • Description: Military
    Container: Box 15, Folder 2
  • Description: Hall of Fame Induction
    Container: Box 15, Folder 3
  • Description: 2005
    Container: Box 15, Folder 4
  • Description: General Photos, 1939-1949
    Container: Box 15, Folder 5
  • Description: General Landscapes
    Container: Box 15, Folder 6
  • Description: Robert Binns
    Container: Box 15, Folder 7
  • Description: John Binns
    Container: Box 15, Folder 8
  • Description: Isaac Binns
    Container: Box 15, Folder 9
  • Description: Fern and Kent Frost Portrait
    Container: Box 15, Folder 10
  • Description: Kent and Alfred Frost, 1920s
    Container: Box 15, Folder 11
  • Description: Dugald Brener Photo, Kent Frost Portrait, 1994
    Container: Box 15, Folder 12
  • Description: River Trip Album, 1980s
    Container: Box 15, Folder 13
  • Description: Negatives
    Container: Box 15, Folder 14
  • Description: Negatives, Colorado River
    Container: Box 15, Folder 15
  • Description: Negatives
    Container: Box 15, Folder 16

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Subject Terms

  • Rivers--West (U.S.)--Recreational use

Personal Names

  • Frost, Kent Smith, 1917-2013

Corporate Names

  • Kent Frost Canyonland Jeep Tours (Utah)

Geographical Names

  • Canyonlands National Park (Utah)

Form or Genre Terms

  • black-and-white prints (photographs)
  • color prints (photographs)

Finding aid created by Claire A. Kempa
2023

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