Woman Of The River: Georgie White Clark, Whitewater Pioneer

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Chapter 1 1. Diamond Creek and a nearby pyramid-shaped butte called Diamond Peak were named by Lt. Joseph Christmas Ives and Dr. John S. Newberry during their exploration in 1858. See Nancy Brian, Rive1' to Rim: A Guide to Names along the Colorado River in (,'mnd Canyon from Lake Powell to Lake Mead (Flagstaff, Ariz.: Earthquest Press, 1992), 125. 2. Georgie White Clark and Duane Newcomb, Georgie Clark: Thirty Years ofRiver Running (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1977),31-34. 3. Mile posts on the Colorado River in Grand Canyon are designated as the number of miles downstream from Lee's Ferry, Arizona, 4. Clark and Newcomb, Georgie Clm'k, 32. 5. According to Bureau of Reclamation records, the maximum flow of the river through the Grand Canyon duringJune 1945 was 50,200 cfs (cubic feet per second). 6. Clark and Newcomb, Georgie Clm'k, 32. 7. Quartermaster Canyon was named for Quartermaster, a Hualapai Indian who lived there between 1900 and 1930. Brian, River to Rim, 130. 8. First discovered byJacob Hamblin, the site was named for Harrison Pierce, who operated a ferry from there across the Colorado River for the Mormon Church from 1876 to 1883. Brian, River to Rim, 134. 9. Biographical Notes, Harry L. Aleson Papers, Utah State Historical Society; hereafter cited as Aleson Papers. 10. Ibid. 11. Georgie White Clark, interview by Karen Underhill, Grand Canyon, 6 November 1991, Northern Arizona University Cline Library; also stated in numerous interviews with Georgie by others. 12. Copy of birth certificate in possession of author and in the Georgie Clark Collection at Northern Arizona University Cline Library (hereafter cited as Clark Collection). 13, Clark, interview by Underhill, 1. 282 PfotCJ; 'Yegu 6-29 14. Colorado Department ofHealth to Rosalyn]. Jirge, 20 April 1994, in possession of author (regarding verification of birth certificate). 15. The comptometer was the forerunner of the modern calculator. 16. Clark and Newcomb, Georgie Clark, 23. 17. Ibid. 18. Ibid,27. 19. Harry Aleson, quoted in Boulder City (Colo.) News, 14 September 1944. 20. Clark and Newcomb, Georgie Clark, 28. 21. Ibid. 22. "Aleson Directs Own Boat Rescue while Suffering from Scorpion Sting." Boulde1' City (Colo.) News, 8 September 1944. 23. Clark to Aleson, 1 September 1947, Aleson Papers, box 2, folder 10 (see label included in letter). 24. Aleson Papers, box 1, folder 10. 25. A1eson Papers, box 1, folder 14. Chapter 2 1. Clark and Newcomb, Georgie Clark, 29-3O. 2. See J. W. Powell, The Exploration ofthe Colorado River and Its Canyons (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1961). 3. David Lavender, RiveT· Runners ofthe Grand Canyon (Grand Canyon, Ariz.: Grand Canyon Natural History Association, 1985),8-9. 4. Aleson Papers, box 2, folder 2. 5. Aleson to Clark, Aleson Papers, box 2, folder 2 (on Johnston Hotel stationery headed only by "Also Sunday AM"). 6. Clark to Aleson, 9 May 1946, Aleson Papers, box 1, folder 14. 7. Harry Aleson, Log ofJune 1946, 1946 Diaries and Journals, Aleson Papers, box 26, folder 2. 8. Ibid. 9. Clark and Newcomb, Georgie Cla,·k, 35-36. 10. Aleson, Log ofJune 1946. 11. Clark to Aleson, Aleson Papers, box 2, folder 6. 12. Clark to Aleson, 7 April 1947, Aleson Papers, box 2, folder 7. 13. Clark to Aleson, 4 August 1947, Aleson Papers, box 2, folder 9. 14. Clark to Aleson, Aleson Papers, box 2, folder 7. 15. Clark and Newcomb, Georgie Clark, 40-41. 16. Here and following unless otherwise cited, "Cataract Canyon Boat Trip, 1947," typed copy of original, Clark Collection, box 1, folder 4. 17. Cataract Canyon was named by Major John Wesley Powell in 1869. Powell, Exploration ofthe Colorado River, 216. 18. John Weisheit, "Harry Aleson and Georgie Clark: The Log of the 'Mai Qui,'" The Confluence: The Journal ofColorado Plateau River Guides (Moab, Utah), vol. 4, issue 1 (Spring 1997): 22. 293 :Hottr, ':P~tI 31-43 Chapter 3 1. Clark to AJeson, 5 February 1948, AJeson Papers, box 3, folder 1. 2. JeffWallach, "On River Time," Sierra: The Magazine ofthe Sierra Club, MaylJune 1994, 66. 3. Harry Aleson to "Lou," 1June 1948, Marston Collection at the Huntington Library, box 252. Items from this collection are reproduced by permission of the Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif., and are hereafter cited as Marston Collection. 4. Ibid. 5. See David E. Miller, Hole- in-the-Rock (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1975). 6. Discovered and named by...