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The background events and the discovery of Rainbow Bridge are found in a number of places. Cummings' (1910a, b; 1910b reprinted 1959) own accounts are modestly brief and none of the hostility that developed between the zealous surveyor Douglass and the Dean is obvious. In writing about the event years later Cummings (1952) indicates something of his feelings in the matter. Neil M. Judd (1927, reprinted in 1959), one of Cummings' students in the discovery party and later Curator of American Archeology, U. S. National Museum, has written the most detailed account which is otherwise valuable for the photographs made at the time of the discovery by Stuart M. Young, the official photographer. Young (1959) has published a brief statement. A somewhat broader article was prepared by Judd in the essays written For the Dean, edited by Reed and King (1950). Chapter 10 in Gillmor and Wetherill (1953), is an account with John Wetherill's part in the discovery accented. The Dean's eleven-year old boy. Malcolm B, Cummings (1940), is the only one who said that he finished last in the race to Rainbow Bridge. His brief recollections of the discovery were also published in 1959. Joseph E. Pogue (1911), assisting Herbert E. Gregory (1916, 1917) in this study of the Navajo Country, visited the Bridge with Gregory in July, 1910 and published an account of the discovery together with the measurements of the white Canyon bridges (Natural Bridges National Monument) and Rainbow taken from data in Douglass' surveys. Still another account, also containing Douglass' data, is Miser, Trimble, and Paige (1923), of what is thought to be the first river-based party to visit the bridge. The names of the scenic tributary canyons have been supplied by J. Frank Wright, Blanding, Utah, who served his apprenticeship on the river with Norman Nevills. 104Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 14,411,776 byte