Upper Pa-Ro-Gunt. (Dripping Cave Lake.) [Kanab Creek]

Creator

American Photographer · 1843–1925

John K. Hillers began making photographs while exploring the terrain around the Colorado River in 1871. Part of a survey team led by John Wesley Powell, a geologist and ethnologist, Hillers was originally hired as a boatman. He became increasingly interested in the work of the team's photographer, began acting as his assistant, and by 1872 had become the expedition photographer. From the 1870s unt