J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections
James M. Aton papers
Aton, James M., 1949-
ACCN 2689
10.25 linear feet
20 boxes
1829-2006
The James M. Aton papers (1829-2006) consist of articles, maps, newspapers, and book excerpts dealing with the natural history, archaeology, ecology, and early settlement of Southern Utah. The papers also include manuscript drafts, correspondence, and photograph use information pertaining to the writing of River Flowing from the Sunrise: An Environmental History of the Lower San Juan by James Aton and Robert McPherson.
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James M. Aton has a Ph.D. in English from Ohio University and teaches writing, American Studies, Continental European Literature, Mythology, and Writing at Southern Utah University. Aton has been published in the Utah Historical Quarterly, Western American Literature, and South Dakota Review. He has twice been the recipient of a Visiting Fulbright Scholarship for American Studies. His books include
River Flowing from the Sunrise: An Environmental History of the Lower San Juan; The River Knows Everything: Desolation Canyon and the Green; and John Wesley Powell: His Life and Legacy.
The James M. Aton papers consist of articles, maps, newspapers, book excerpts, correspondence, photograph use information, and manuscript drafts.
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Gift of James M. Aton in 2012.
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Forms part of the River Running Archives (S.J. Quinney Outdoor Recreation Archives).
Aton, James M., 1949---Archives
San Juan River Valley (Colo.-Utah)--Environmental Conditions
Natural history--Utah, Southern
Ecology--Utah, Southern
Archaeology--Utah, Southern
Archaeology
Science
Drafts (documents)
Maps
Articles
Correspondence
Newspapers
Archaeological and historical papers
I
Journal materials of Antonio Armijo
1829-1830
1
1
References to the Ute Indians from the New York Times index
1851-1900
1
2
Letter from Major Henry Kendrick
1953
1
3
Huntington article
1854
1
4
Ethan Pettit diary
1855
1
5
Alfred N. Billings journal
1855
1
6
Macomb, Report of the Exploring Expedition
1859
1
7
Alice Eastwood materials
1859-1987
1
8
Sketches for the U.S. Geological Survey by William Holmes
1987-1996
1
9
Hayden Geologic Survey report
1875
1
10
C. L. Christensen
1875-1935
1
11
Francis F. Kane diary
1891
1
12
Cass Hite
1893
1
13
King, "An Exploration of the Region Occupied by the Cliff Dweller"
1893
1
14
Cummings' manuscripts
1900-1953
1
15
Indian Rights Association Against Indian Removal
1890
1
16
The Illustrated American
1892-1897
1
17
The Salt Lake Tribune
1893
1
18
Correspondence of Caleb West
1894
1
19
Prudden, "Prehistoric Ruins of the San Juan Watershed"
1903
1
20
Diary of H. C. Culmer
1905
1
21
Edgar L. Hewell field notes`
1906-1909
1
22
Indian Affairs of San Juan City
1907
2
1
Prudden, On the Great American Plateau
1907
2
2
Hunter, Report Concerning Expedition Sent into the Black Mountain Country in Connection with Indian Matters
1908
2
3
Cummings expedition map
1909
2
4
Cummings field notes
1909
2
5
Charles Goodman photography
1910
2
6
Elk Mountain Mission
1913-1964
2
7
Bernheimer field notes
1919-1930
2
8
Hugh Miser fieldwork
1921
2
9
Correspondence of Hugh Miser and Heber Christensen
1921-1925
2
10
Neil Merton Judd materials
1922-1991
2
11
Todd, "Indian Troubles--A Pioneer Experience"
1925
2
12
Jackson, "The Pioneer Photographer"
1929
2
13
Indians and the Slave Trade
1929-1933
2
14
Bernheimer, "Cave Treasures of the Lukaichukais"
1931
2
15
Denis Julien articles
1933-1969
2
16
Lowrey, Rainbow Bridge-Monument Valley Expedition
1933
2
17
Kluckholn, Beyond the Rainbow
1933
2
18
General Paiute information
1933-1986
2
19
Rainbow Bridge-Monument Valley expedition
1933-1987
3
1
Espinosa, "The Legend of Sierra Azul"
1934
3
2
Otis Marston correspondence
1936-1964
3
3
Jackson, "A Visit to the Los Pinos Indian Agency in 1874"
1938
3
4
Charles Bernheimer
1940
3
5
Articles on John Wetherill
1940-1985
3
6
River trip articles
1943-1996
3
7
Pyle, Home Country and Ernie Pyle's Southwest
1947-1955
3
8
Biographies of Herbert E. Gregory
1952-1953
3
9
"Chief Hoskanini"
1953
3
10
Mulder, Among the Mormons: Historic Accounts by Contemporary Observers
1958
3
11
Schiel, Journey Through the Rocky Mountains
1959
3
12
"San Jose Sites in Southeastern Utah"
1959
3
13
General Anasazi information
1959-1983
3
14
Articles on James O. Pattie by A. L. Kroeber
1962-1964
3
15
Brugge, "Vizcarra's Navajo Campaign of 1823"
1964
3
16
Hafen, "The Mountian Trade of the Far West"
1965
3
17
Parkhill, The Blazed Trail of Antoine LeRoux
1965
3
18
Quaternary extinctions
1966-1985
3
19
Brugge, Navajos in the Catholic Church Records of New Mexico, 1694-1875
1968
3
20
"The Prehistoric Community on the Colorado Plateau"
1968
3
21
Judd, "Men Met Along the Trail"
1968
3
22
The Archaic
1968-1980
4
1
Bulger, "First Man Through the Grand Canyon"
1970
4
2
"Climatic Change and Early Population Dynamics in the Southwestern Unites States"
1970
4
3
"Testimony of the Sacredness of Rainbow Natural Bridge to Puebloans, Navajos, and Paiutes"
1973
4
4
Butler Wash Archaeological Project
1976
4
5
Arroyos
1976-1983
4
6
Cutter, "Prelude to a Pageant in the Wilderness"
1977
4
7
"A Cultural Resource Summary of the East Central Portion of the Moab District"
1980
4
8
"Basketmaker Settlement and Subsistence Along the San Juan River"
1982
4
9
A Summary of Prehistory of Southeastern Utah
1982
4
10
The Archaic
1983
4
11
General Anasazi information
1983-1988
5
1
"Great Pueblo Architecture of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico"
1984
5
2
Final Recapture Wash Archaeological Project
1985
5
3
Folsom site
1985-1991
5
4
Quaternary extinctions
1986-1996
5
5
Dolores Archaeological Program
1987
5
6
"Adaptational Continuities and Occupational Discontinuities: the Cedar Mesa Anasazi"
1988
5
7
Dolores Archaeological Program, flora and fauna
1988
5
8
Vale, Western Landscapes: Travel Along U.S. 89
1989
5
9
Aceramic Sites and the Archaic Occupation Along the San Juan River
1990
5
10
Kenneth Ross
5
11
Carnett, "Legal Background of Archaeological Resources Protection"
1991
5
12
"Consequences of a Mammalian Predator-Prey Disequilibrium in the Great Basin Desert"
1991
5
13
James Owl stories and grant applications
1991
5
14
James Owl correspondence
1991-1992
5
15
Weber, The Spanish Frontier in North America
1992
5
16
"The Mouth of Butler Wash Site on the San Juan River, Utah"
1993
5
17
"The Chimney Rock Archaeological Symposium"
1993
5
18
"Social Complexity and Hunting Systems in Southwestern Colorado"
1993
5
19
Pinon-Juniper history
1993-1996
6
1
Disease and Indian populations
1995
6
2
"The Bluff Water Project"
1995
6
3
Ellen Melloy materials
1995-1996
6
4
Law, "The San Juan River: Forward, Into the Past"
1996
6
5
"Hunting According to Navajo Tradition"
1996
6
6
Navajo relocation
1996
6
7
News stories about Tony Hillerman
1998
6
8
Abajo archaeology
6
9
Information on packrat middens
6
10
Thales H. Haskell journal
6
11
"An Old-Time Indian Attack Conducted in Two Parts"
6
12
Western Navajo Agency
6
13
Daniels, "Adventures with the Anasazi of Falls Creek"
6
14
Kidder, "Exploration in Southeastern Utah in 1908"
6
15
Jackson, "A Notice of the Ancient Ruins in Arizona and Utah Lying About the Rio San Juan"
6
16
Hugh Miser biography
6
17
Hugh Miser correspondence
6
18
Lister, Earl Morris and Southwester Archaeology
6
19
Nevills expeditions correspondence and publicity
6
20
Rogers, "True Narrative of an Indian Fight"
6
21
T. Mitchell Prudder materials
6
22
Prudder, "A Further Study of Prehistoric Small House Ruins in the San Juan Watershed"
6
23
Articles on Spaniards and the Environment
7
1
Tobin, "Archaeology in the San Juan"
7
2
Cummings, "The Controversy of 1915"
7
3
Wetherill, Reflections on Life with the Navajos in Chacho Canyon
7
4
Wild Rivers Adventures materials
7
5
John Franklin Wright materials
7
6
Natural History of Southern Utah
II
La Sal news stories
1877-1878
8
1
Congressional report
1879
8
2
Report of the Commission on Removal
1889
8
3
"The San Juan River Placers"
1893
8
4
Irrigation investigations in Utah
1903
8
5
Experimental dry farm
1904
8
6
Geology of San Juan
1905-1991
8
7
News stories on E. L. Goodridge and oil
1911
8
8
Pierce, "The Measurement of Silt-Laden Streams"
1916
8
9
News for Hoover and Public lands
1929
8
10
Forsling, Erosion on Uncultivated Lands in the Intermountain Region
1932
8
11
J. W. Humphrey grazing materials
1938-1953
8
12
San Juan Record stories concerning Norman Nevills
1938-1977
8
13
La Sal National Forest historical information
1940
8
14
Highlights of Grazing History of the Intermountain Region of the Forest Service
1940
8
15
Salt Lake Tribune Empire Edition
1951
8
16
Colorado River Storage Project hearings
1954-1955
8
17
Woodbury, "Survey of Vegetation in the Glen Canyon Reservoir Basin"
1959
8
18
United States v. Utah -the San Juan River Bed Case
1960
8
19
Glen Canyon surveys
1963-1965
8
20
Guyman, Ecological History and Biological Resources of San Juan County, Utah
1964
8
21
Woodbury, "Notes on the Human Ecology of Glen Canyon"
1965
9
1
Information on Lake Powell
1965-1969
9
2
Literature on Southern Utes
1965-1972
9
3
Articles on floods
1966-1978
9
4
Rock art
1967-1985
9
5
Balsley, "Uranium"
1970
9
6
Utah State Historical Society Oral History Program, interview with Nadine Adams
1972
9
7
Physiologic provinces map
1972
9
8
Utah State Historical Society Southeastern Utah Oral History Project, Kent Frost interview
1973
9
9
Lake Powell research bulletins
1973-1975
9
10
Keller-Bliesner water information
1975-1997
9
11
Articles on sediment and erosion
1976-1991
9
12
"Settlement and Subsistence Along the Lower Chaco River: The CGP Survey"
1977
9
13
San Juan Basin Uranium Study
1978
9
14
Rabbitt, A Brief History of the U.S. Geological Survey
1979
9
15
Bureau of Land Management Study of San Juan
1979
9
16
Turner, Recent Vegetation Changes Along the Colorado River Between Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Mead, Arizona
1980
9
17
San Juan River Recreation Component Study
1980
9
18
Wright, Firs Ecology: United States and Southern Canada
1982
10
1
Navajo Indian Irrigation Project
1983-1999
10
2
Doyle, Recreational Water Quality Assessment of the San Juan River
1985
10
3
Peterson, Water Rights on the Little Colorado River
1986
10
4
Pisani, "Deep and Troubled Waters: A New Field of Western History?"
1988
10
5
A Study of Campsite Impacts on the San Juan River, Utah
1989
10
6
"Kayenta Anasazi Archeology and Navajo Ethnohistory on the Northwester Shonot Plateau"
1989
10
7
San Juan Marina Development Concept Plan and Environmental Assessment
1990
10
8
Godfrey, "The Trouble with Livestock Grazing on Public Lands"
1991
10
9
"Resource Management Plan, Record of Decision, and Rangeland Program Summary for the San Juan Resource Area"
1991
10
10
Winter Peregrine Falcon Survey of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
1991-1992
10
11
Articles on endangered plants
1991-1993
10
12
Articles on Aneth Wells
1991-1996
10
13
San Juan Fall news
1991-2004
10
14
Gomez-Pompa, "Taming the Wilderness Myth"
1992
10
15
Earthquakes Near Cedar City, Utah
1992
10
16
What's Old and What's New About the Wise Use Movement
1993
10
17
Grand Gulch Plateau Cultural and Recreation Area Management Plan
1993
11
1
"The River, the Ditch, and the Volcano: Bluff, 1879-1884"
1993
11
2
Animas-La Plata news
1993-1997
11
3
Bluff preservation efforts
1994-1997
11
4
Navajo Natural Heritage Program
1995
11
5
Power, "The Economics of Wilderness Preservation in Utah"
1995
11
6
Notes on San Juan legislation
1995
11
7
Wilderness surveys
1995-2000
11
8
Condors
1996
11
9
Articles concerning the Rainbow Bridge controversy
1997-1998
11
10
Glen Canyon Institute
1997-1998
11
11
Rio Grande operations
1998
11
12
Arizona dams
11
13
"Preliminary Report of 1990-1991 Excavations at Hanson Pueblo"
11
14
Wollin, "Navajo Site Types and Settlement Patterns Along the Middle San Juan River"
11
15
Clark, Water in New Mexico: A History of its Management and Use
11
16
Cliff, "State of the Forest Service"
11
17
Frost, "Recent Trip to Rainbow Bridge via San Juan and Colorado Rivers"
11
18
Glen Canyon Environmental Studies bibliography
11
19
Articles on endangered plant species
11
20
Richardson, "The Escalante National Monument Controversy"
11
21
Articles on bighorn sheep
11
22
Science Applications, An Investigation of Vegetation and Wildlife of the San juan River, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah
12
1
San Juan River ecology
12
2
News stories on Utah and Boulder Dams
12
3
Friends of the Virgin River
12
4
Newspaper articles on water development
12
5
Southwest Utah National Park Service Report
12
6
Elmer Grant Woodruff biography
12
7
Woodbury, "Preliminary Report on Biological Resources of the Glen Canyon"
12
8
Goosenecks State Park information
12
9
Palmer, The Wild and Scenic Rivers of America
12
10
Hundley, The Great Thirst
12
11
Hansen, "The Endangered Species Act and Extinction of Reserved Indian Water Rights on the San Juan River"
12
12
Map of Mexican Hat Dam
12
13
National Archives materials
12
14
Hays, Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency
12
15
Goodridge Town site
12
16
Glen Canyon research permit application
12
17
Woodbury, "Birds of the Navajo Country"
12
18
Walker, "Archaeological Excavations at River House Ruin"
12
19
San Juan Utes, essay and draft
12
20
Articles on split-twig figurines
12
21
Wilcox, "The Protohistoric Period in the North American Southwest"
12
22
McCool, "Politics, Water, and Utah"
12
23
Spaulding, "Paleological Investigations at the Coombs Site"
12
24
Accounts of Barton murder
12
25
Howard Balsley interview
12
26
Abruzzi, "Ecological Stability and Community Diversity during Mormon Colonization of the Little Colorado River Basin"
13
1
Birton Howard information and manuscripts
13
2
Day, "Cattle Come to San Juan"
13
3
Articles on volcanoes and general climate information
13
4
Articles on the San Juan climate
13
5
Cottam, "Some Ecological Aspects of Grass on Western Ranges"
13
6
General Bluff City articles
13
7
Alder, Metavariability: Sediment Transport Changes Affecting San Juan River Fish Habitat, New Mexico and Utah
13
8
Diaz, El Nino: Historical and Paleoclimatic Aspects of the Southern Oscillation
13
9
Comb Wash Grazing Allotment
13
10
Kleiner, "Environment and Community Organization in Grasslands of Canyonlands National Park"
13
11
Articles on grasses
13
12
Articles on weeds
13
13
Overstocking materials
13
14
Quammen, Planet of Weeds: Tallying the Losses of Earth's Animals and Plants
13
15
Footnotes of Gary Topping
13
16
Starrs, "Dilemmas of a new age: A half-millennium of landscape change in New Mexico and the Southwest"
13
17
Mormons in San Juan County
III
Articles by Frank Silvey
1855-1940
14
1
Journal of Eliza Smith Lyman
1878-1885
14
2
Diary of Platte D. Lyman
1879-1894
14
3
Mitchell affair
1884
14
4
Frances A. Hammond diary
1886-1888
14
5
Barton, "Utah Humanities Review"
1880
14
6
Lyman, "A Relic of Gadianton: Old Posey as I Knew Him"
1923
14
7
Jones, "The San Juan Mission to the Indians"
1942
14
8
Brooks, "Indian Relations on the Mormon Frontier"
1944
14
9
Lavender, One Man's West
1945
14
10
Jenson, History of the San Juan Stake
1946
14
11
Lyman, "The Fort on the Firing Line"
1948
14
12
Fife, Saints of Sage and Saddle: Folklore Among the Mormons
1956
14
13
Utah Historical Quarterly, Summer 1964
14
14
Lyman, History of San Juan County: 1879-1917
1965
14
15
Lynn Lyman interview
1967
14
16
Rogers, "Piute Posey and the Last Indian Uprising"
14
17
Lyman, The Trail of the Ancients
1972
14
18
Albert R. Lyman interviews
1973-1988
15
1
McCabe, Cowboys, Indians, and Homesteaders
1975
15
2
Hugh Nibley articles on the environment
1978-1989
15
3
Powell, Emery County: Reflections on its Past and Future
1979
15
4
Lectures by Charles S. Peterson
1984-1988
15
5
The New Republic
1990
15
6
Bluff City newspapers
1990-1996
15
7
Brigham Young University's Lyman Collection register
1991
15
8
Valle, "Around the Hat"
1991
15
9
Grove, "Origins of Western Environmentalism"
1992
15
10
Alexander, The LDS Church and the Wasatch Oasis Environment: Stewardship, Reverence, and Exploitation
1992
15
11
Blue Mountain Shadows
1992-1993
15
12
Evaluation and notes on Rocks and Holes; Hills and hollows
2004
15
13
Article on post offices
15
14
"Pages and items from the autobiography of Samuel Rowley"
15
15
Charles Redd correspondence on the purchase of Indian Creek
15
16
Lyman, "Josephine Wood"
15
17
Jones, The Writings of Kumen Jones
15
18
"The U.S. Geological Survey's Library System"
15
19
Articles on Mormon environmental history
15
20
Bluff City layout and houses as noted by A. R. Lyman
15
21
James Douglas articles
15
22
Silvey, History and Settlement of Northern San Juan County
15
23
Reese Richards and Peter Shirts chronology
15
24
Information on John Taylor
15
25
Journal of John Standifird
15
26
Chapter drafts
IV
Imagination chapter
16
1
Federal chapter
16
2
Exploration chapter
16
3
Folson, Archaic Anasazi chapter
16
4
San Juan manuscripts corrected by copy editor
2000
16
5
Personal correspondence
V
Correspondence
1988-1992
17
1
Correspondence
1993-1994
17
2
Correspondence
1995
17
3
Correspondence
1996
17
4
Correspondence
1997-2006
17
5
Photographs and photograph use information
VI
Pictures of Charles Goodman and Zeke Johnson
1904
18
1
Aerial images of San Juan
1937-1992
18
2
Articles on photography
1947-1992
18
3
General photgraphy information
1992-1996
18
4
Adams photgraphy
1996
18
5
O. C. Hansen photograph use documents
1999
18
6
Photograph permission forms
2000
18
7
Photograph forms
2000
18
8
General scanned photographs
18
9
Robert McPherson's photograph captions
18
10
Xeroxes of Charles Goodman photographs
18
11
Streambed changes in bluff
18
12
General scanned photographs
18
13
Hindley photographs and notes
18
14
Photographs from the United States Geological Survey
18
15
General book materials
VII
The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens
1990-1994
19
1
San Juan news publications
1992-1996
19
2
Includes
High Country News, Sage from the Cedars, and Canyon Echo
Chronology of the San Juan River Canyons
1994-1995
19
3
Readers' comments
1999
19
4
Colorado River sources
1999
19
5
Book contract
2000
19
6
Chronology for Green River through Desolation Canyon
19
7
Map covers and bibliography
19
8
San Juan River story
19
9
Bibliography notecards
19
10
Bibliography notecards
19
11
San Juan River notecards
20