Robert Brewster Stanton Collection
Contributors: Smith, Dwight La Vern, 1918-
Subjects: Stanton, Robert Brewster, -- 1846-1922; United States -- Discovery and Exploration; Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) -- Description and travel
Description: This collection contains diaries and journals, correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, and other audiovisual items pertaining to Roberrt Brewster Stanton, particularly his participation in a surveying expedition to determine the feasibility of constructing a railroad through the Grand Canyon during 1889 and 1890.  
Notes: Robert Brewster Stanton Collection, The Walter Havighurst Special Collections, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.

Photocopying allowed on an item-by-item basis at the discretion of the staff of The Walter Havighurst Special Collections.

Smith, Dwight L.; gift; 1988.

After graduating from Miami University in 1871, Robert Brewster Stanton (1846-1922) began a professional career in engineering, including supervising the construction of the Georgetown Loop on a narrow-gauge railroad in the Colorado Rockies (1881-1883).  While serving as the chief engineer of the Denver, Colorado Cañon and Pacific Railroad, Stanton conducted a survey of the Colorado River to determine the feasibility of building a railroad through the river's canyons from Green River, Utah to the Gulf of California.  His exploration of the Colorado River led to another project in which Stanton formed his own company and tried to extract gold from the Glen Canyon country of the Colorado River.

Finding aid available in the repository.
Table of contents: value: Series I. Boxes 1-4; value: Series II. Box 5; value: Series III. Box 5; value: Series IV. Boxes 6-8.