A little more than a year after WDW opened, in the fall of 1972, the future Frontierland attraction was a work in progress. It was, in fact, a busy, somewhat chaotic construction site. Heavy construction equipment was parked in the areas emptied riverbed. I have grainy movie film of a cement truck sitting where the Admiral Joe Fowler Riverboat, Davy Crocketts Explorer Canoes and the Mike Fink...
