This photograph album contains 443 photographs of Zane Grey’s 1922 trip to Rainbow Bridge, capturing the landscape and places of Northern Arizona and Southern Utah including Tsegi Canyon, Navajo Mountain, the Kayenta Trading Post, Monument Valley, Moencopi Wash, Moki Village, and Black Mesa. Many of the photographs show Zane Grey’s riding party, especially focusing on Louise Andersen, Grey’s mistress at the time. Not only are these photographs useful for studying Zane Grey, but they also portray Native American life in the early 1920s, many depicting Navajo and Hopi individuals and their livestock and dwellings. These photographs also portray many natural and man-made wonders such as Rainbow Bridge, the world’s largest natural stone arch, and the Betatakin cliff dwellings. Zane Grey was the primary photographer on this trip, but there was another photographer with a separate camera who took pictures of Zane Grey posing in front of the desert landmarks.

For more detail about this particular trip, see: Zane Grey, “Down in the Desert,” Ladies’ Home Journal Vol. 41, no. 1 (January 1924): pgs 8-9; 40; 43-44; 46.