High Wide And Handsome : The River Journals of Norman D. Nevills / / edited by Roy Webb ; with a foreword by Brad Dimock.
When he started taking paying passengers by boat through the rapids of the Colorado River's canyons, Norman Nevills invented whitewater tourism and the commercial river business. For twelve years, from 1938 until his death in a plane crash in 1949, he safely took, without a single life lost, fr...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Logan, Utah : : Utah State University Press,, 2005. ©2005. |
| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (321 p.) |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Cataract and Grand Canyons, June 20 to August 1, 1938; Green River through the Grand Canyon, June 17 to August 22, 1940; Grand Canyon, July 14 to August 5, 1941; Grand Canyon, July 12 to August 7, 1942; Salmon River, July 11 to August 3, 1946; Snake River, August 4 to August 17, 1946; Green River, June 16 to July 5, 1947; Grand Canyon, July 10 to August 5, 1947; Grand Canyon, July 11 to August 5, 1948; Green River, June 19 to July 3, 1949; Grand Canyon, July 12 to July 31, 1949; Coda, Monday, September 19, 1949; A Note On The Sources; Notes; Index