1952 Films
Grand Canyon River Trip with Bill and Fern Davis in Raft
This 1952 film is of a Grand Canyon River Trip conducted by Frank Wright and Jim Rigg, co-owners of Mexican Hat Expeditions. Bill and Fern Davis put two rafts in the Green River at Green River, Wyoming. Bill rowed one raft, his daughter Millie the other. Fern's son Ron was also on the trip. The four people in two boats traveled through Lodore, Split Mountain, the Uintah Basin, Desolation, and Gray canyons to Green River, Utah. Millie and Ron left the river here. Bill and Fern continued on through Labyrinth, Stillwater, Cataract, and Glen canyons to arrive at Lee's Ferry the day before the Mexican Hat trip was to depart. Bill and Fern rowed their raft to Phantom Ranch with the Mexican Hat trip, then hiked out there as Bill had already run the Phantom to Lake Mead section in 1950. This is a poor quality video of the original 16 mm film. While this river trip want the full 278 miles through Grand Canyon, Bill and Fern were on the upper part of the trip only, going from Lee’s Ferry to Phantom Ranch, the first 87 miles of the trip. Courtesy GRCA