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Photo Gallery
Here are some photos taken by Dave
Rust and his tripmates during their journeys
into the wild places of southern Utah and northern Arizona.
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Dave Rust packing a mule below the Aquarius
Plateau, August 1920.
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Rust in his King canvas boat, Grand Canyon,
1909.
This photo was taken by his friend Emery Kolb on an upriver excursion
from Rust's camp at the mouth of Bright Angel Creek.
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Dave (left) and his brother Will
at their prospecting camp in the Henry Mountains, summer 1899.
The Rust brothers were working claims in Bromide Basin with their
friend Nathaniel Galloway, who may have taken this photo.
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Dave titled this photo "First Passengers
on Tram." These hardy souls are about to be slung over the
Colorado River on the cable crossing installed in 1906-07 by Rust
and his fellow workers with the Grand Canyon Transportation Company.
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Fording the East Fork of the
Virgin River below Parunuweap Canyon, July 1914. George C. Fraser
and his son, shown here, were Rust's companions on three lengthy
expeditions during the summers of 1914, 1915, and 1916.
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The Western Temple of the Mukuntuweap,
now part of Zion National Park, as seen from the Crawford Ranch
in 1914. Rust guided parties in Zion from 1909-1927.
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Photos courtesy
of the Dave Rust and George C. Fraser families
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