Utah Historical Quarterly, Volume 55, Number 2, 1987

Page 83

Norman Nevills running Joe Desloge through Ashley Falls, Green River, June 24, 1949. Photograph by P. T. Reilly.

Norman Nevills: Whitewater Man of the West BY P. T. REILLY

commercial operator on the Colorado River and he was not a native of Utah, but he popularized the running of western Whitewater and made Mexican Hat, Utah, — population less than ten — the capital of the river runner's world during the 1940s.

N O R M A N DAVIES N E V I L L S WAS N O T T H E FIRST

Mr. Reilly lives in Sun City, Arizona.


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