River Interpreter Roy Dale Webb Presents Friends of the Library Lecture

The group Friends of the Merrill-Cazier Library at Utah State University presents its fall lecture Thursday, Nov. 15. Roy Dale Webb will present “I Had Arrived At Perfection: The Lost Canyons of the Green River.” The lecture is free and open to all. Members of the community are especially invited.

Webb is an author, historian and archivist with the Special Collections department of the Marriott Library at the University of Utah, where he oversees a comprehensive collection of writings and visual materials on the history of the Colorado River.

 

The lecture begins at 7 p.m. in the Merrill-Cazier Library's Auditorium, room 101, on the USU campus (approximately 570 N. 930 East).

 

Webb was born in Farmington, N.M., and grew up on the banks of the San Juan and Animas Rivers. He received a bachelor’s degree in 1984 and a master’s degree (both in American history) in 1991 from the University of Utah. Webb has worked in the Marriott Library at the U since 1981. Since 1994, he has served as the multimedia archivist in Special Collections.

 

A river enthusiast, Webb has rafted all of the Green River below Fontenelle Dam in Wyoming, most of the Colorado between Grand Junction and Pearce Ferry (save for Lake Powell), the San Juan, the White River and other rivers in the western United States. The author of five books, he has been a historian/interpreter on river trips since 1983, and began consulting professionally in 1985 with his first Grand Canyon trip for Grand Canyon Expeditions.

 

The Friends of the Merrill-Cazier Library is an organization that recognizes the central role of the university's library in the education of students. The group provides financial and program support for the libraries, and organizes a lecture series on the Utah State campus.

 

Contact: Merrill-Cazier Library (435) 797-2631