UUS_P0656.xml Guide to the Norm Nevills River Running photograph collection 1938-1952 Nevills, Norm River Running photograph collection 1938-1952 Finding aid/register created by Daniel Davis and Katie Ash Utah State University Libraries. Special Collections and Archives
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©2019 Encoded in oXygen XML editor by Daniel Davis, 2019 January 26. Finding aid encoded in English. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard, 2nd Edition). Overview of the Collection UUS_P0656 Nevills, Norman D., 1908-1949. Norm Nevills River Running photograph collection. 1938-1952 Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives Photograph Collection
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1 box .25 linear feet The Norm Nevills photograph collection consists of 15 images that chronicle river running trips of well-known whitewater river runner, Norm Nevills. Also included are images of the 1952 Mexican Hat expedition. Individuals identified in the collection include Otis “Doc” Marston, Norm Nevills and his wife Doris, Dr. Elzada Clover, Lois Jotter, Don Harris, Randall Henderson, and Al Millate. Material in English

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Initial Citation: USU_P0656; Norm Nevills River Running photograph collection; Photograph Collections Special Collections and Archives. Utah State University Merrill-Cazier Library. Logan, Utah.

Following Citations:UUS_P0656, USUSCA.

 Biographical Note

Nevills was born to William E. and Mae Davies Nevills on April 9, 1908. He attended the College of the Pacific in Stockton, California. He married Doris Drown in 1933. They had two daughters, Joan and Sandra. He began professional guiding in 1936 on the San Juan and Colorado Rivers, and he founded Nevills Expeditions in 1938. Also in 1938 he gained fame where he guided two female botanists (including Dr. Elzada Clover) from the University of Michigan. He was frequently depicted in the press as “the World’s No. 1 Fast-Water Man.” He learned to fly and purchased an airplane in 1946. In 1949 he and his wife Doris died in a plane crash.

The Norm Nevills photograph collection consists of 15 images that chronicle river running trips of well-known whitewater river runner, Norm Nevills. Also included are images of the 1952 Mexican Hat expedition. Individuals identified in the collection include Otis “Doc” Marston, Norm Nevills and his wife Doris, Dr. Elzada Clover, Lois Jotter, Don Harris, Randall Henderson, and Al Millate.

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 Expeditions and Adventure Photographs Nevills, Norman D., 1908-1949--Photographs White-water canoeing--West (U.S.) Rivers--West (U.S.) 1 1 1:01:01 through 1:01:15 Images of river running trips on the San Juan and Colorado rivers with river guide Norm Nevills, and the Mexican Hat expedition from 1952 1938-1952

Individuals identified in the photographs include: Otis “Doc” Marston, Norm Nevills and his wife Doris, Dr. Elzada Clover, Lois Jotter, Don Harris, Randall Henderson, and Al Millate.