During the fall and winter of 1911a12, pioneering Grand Canyon photographers Ellsworth and Emery Kolb rowed down the Green and Colorado Rivers through the Grand Canyon. Remarkably, they brought a newfangled motion-picture camera along for the ride and became the first to record the Grand Canyon on film. The resulting movie was shown at the Grand ...
In this tribute to Desolation Canyon in Utah's red-rock canyon country, Meloy, a writer, artist, and native of the West who has written for "Outside" and "Harper's," chronicles a back country river ranger's season, when she and her husband spent an utterly roofless half a year. As a natural historian, Meloy touches on everything from the Anasazi ...
Beginning above Flaming Gorge Dam in southwestern Wyoming, the Green River traverses the complete variety of terrain on the Colorado Plateau before joining the Colorado River above Cataract Canyon in southeastern Utah. Like its more famous cousin, the Colorado, the Green has captivated, capsized, and cajoled all types of characters with challenges ...
book logo the doing of the thing In 1911, The Kolb brothers, Emery and Ellsworth, young photographers living on the South Rim of Grand Canyon, conceived a preposterous expedition: although neither of them knew much about whitewater, they had two wooden rowboats built, and proposed to row them the entire eleven hundred miles of the Green and ...
In this story of the Green River, the events that have shaped the river's history are interwoven with the colorful human personalities who have shared the dangerous and thrilling explorations of tile river, the excitement of the rapids, the beauty of peaceful parks, and the mystery of dark canyons.
An exhaustive study of the trout-rich Green River by guide Dennis Breer. Full of hatch and pattern information for the entire year. Eight pages of color fly plates and scenery. Scores of maps and other helpful photographs. A masterpiece explaining the trout-fishing opportunities to be enjoyed. Fly tying instructions and specialty patterns, boating ...
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