Barry Goldwater Photographs :: Deer Creek Falls - 1940

Deer Creek Falls (1940)
negative: #719

This waterfall flows cold and clear out of a crevice at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. The image was taken during Dad’s first trip down the river in 1940, an eventful voyage that earned him the distinction of being the seventy-third person to run the rapids of the Grand Canyon.
- Michael Goldwater

In his diary of the trip, (Delightful Journey,) he explained that:

"Deer Creek comes down from the North Rim and winds through a tortuous canyon of redwall limestone along the river where it plunges about a hundred and twenty-five feet to the river level. It is situated about two hundred feet back from the river and shoots sideways out of a crack in the wall. The water assumes a fan shape as it comes down and falls freezingly and forcefully on those who venture below it. We did and were cool for a change."
- Barry M. Goldwater

The Eyes of His Soul: The Visual Legacy of Barry M. Goldwater, Master Photographer.

Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Historical Foundation, 2003. p102