Robert B. Aird in Monument Valley, 1923. All photographs are from the Polly Aird Collection in the USHS Library.
An Adventure for Adventure's Sake Recounted by Robert B. Aird EDITED BY GARY TOPPING
from various materials in the Polly Aird Papers at the Utah State Historical Society. It is a firsthand account of two college boys who ventured into the back country of San Juan County, Utah, in the summer of 1923 in quest, as the title indicates, of an adventure for its own sake. Even as recently as 1923 San Juan County was a good place for an adventure, for it offered not only spectacular scenery, prehistoric sites, a physical environment to test both human and animal, but, as the narrative indicates, even leftover tensions from a recent Indian war. As T H E FOLLOWING NARRATIVE HAS BEEN ASSEMBLED
Dr. Topping is an instructor in history at Salt Lake Community College.