From the beginning of The Onward Project, our relationship with descendants has been crucial. Researching, locating, and connecting with people who were related to or affected by the Rainbow Bridge-Monument Valley Expedition has given The Onward Project incredible depth. These relationships will continue the RBMVE story into the future.
We have met sons, daughters, granddaughters, grandsons, great-nieces and -nephews of original expedition participants. They bring us personal insight through family stories, adding to the wide range of archival material we have access to in many archives around the country: lantern slides, historic films, diaries and historic images, drawings, paintings, and objects. If you know anyone who was associated with this expedition, please contact us!
Dorothy Leake, nee Wetherill, Elizabeth Kahn, Allison Fischer-Olson and Lithuania Denetso talking and listening to Dorothy’s insightful stories about her memories of the Expeditioners during her summer visits to her grandparents Trading Post.
Images taken by Brad McKee, an Expeditioner in 1934, and his daughters who he spent many summers with in the Four Corners area. The ONWARD Project was contacted by one of the McKee daughters who learned from their experiences in this landscape.
Harvey Leake (John Wetherill’s great grandson) and Roger Hall (Ansel Hall’s son) at the 2014 The ONWARD Project Conference.
Annie Danis (The ONWARD Project board member) and Jean Littlesalt, daughter of Max Littlesalt, talking at the 2014 Conference.
