Grand Canyon Historical Society 2006 Pioneer Awardee... Al Richmond The Grand Canyon Pioneers Society Pioneer Award for 2006 was presented to Al Richmond for: his achievements as one of the founders of the Grand Canyon Pioneers Society (now called the Grand Canyon Historical Society) and his ongoing work to solicit and select a recipient for the Society's annual Scholarship Award, and his participation in the selection and presentation of the annual Grand Canyon Hall of Fame Award for Community Service; serving the public as an Arizona liaison for the National Parks and Monuments of northern Arizona; his assistance with the Arizona Culturekeeps, a statewide historical program recognizing those dedicated to preserving the State of Arizona; facilitating the construction of the Arizona State Railroad Museum in Williams, Arizona; his achievements as the founder of the Grand Canyon Railway Museum in Williams, Arizona; and for his work as the historian and museum curator for the Grand Canyon Railway Museum; and his revolutionary research of the development, building and historical accounts of the Grand Canyon Railway from Williams to Grand Canyon Village, Arizona, and the resulting publication of that research into the popular books Cowboys, Miners, Presidents and Kings: The Story of the Grand Canyon Railway, plus Rails to the Rim: Milepost Guide to the Grand Canyon Railway and more recently The Grand Canyon Railway: Sixty Years in Color.