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On the national stage - 1912 - 1915
Emery immediately took the movie on the road. He lectured in Los Angeles, then went back east.
He made it onto the stage of the Carnegie Music Hall in the brothers hometown of Pittsburgh. Their mother had taken him to a lecture there when he was a boy. Someday, he had boasted, she'd see him up there on the same stage.
Movies were a wonder then, and this one played to packed houses where it went.
In Chicago, Emery caught the eye of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell and his son-in-law Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor, the head of the National Geographic Society. This led to an almost entire issue of the magazine devoted to the Kolbs' adventures on the Colorado.
After the "Big Trip," the brothers expanded their studio and added a small theater in order to show their movie at the Canyon.
Ellsworth returned alone to Needles the following year, bought a boat, and caught the spring flood down to the ocean in Mexico.
Later that same year, he wrote a book about the entire adventure, Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico.
Continue - The Canyon keeps calling
Excerpts from:
Garrison, Lon. "A Camera and a Dream: The Story of the Kolb Brothers of Grand Canyon." Arizona Highways, January 1953.
Kolb, E. L. Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1914.
