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Manuscripts

Silt in Lake Mead just below the mouth of Grand Wash. The silt island at left appears at left in 564 LEMD 1

Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1956, Spr. 16
Call number: mssMarston papers V100/0116
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