Bus Hatch, a hard-drinking, hard-fighting carpenter from Vernal, Utah, became one of the seminal figures in Western river running. Together with his inlaws (and a few outlaws) they began boating the Green and Colorado Rivers around 1930. It was they that introduced having a riotously good time to an occupation formerly considered very serious business. By the 1950s Hatch was hauling hundreds of clients downriver through Dinosaur National Monument and river throughout the West. Bus Hatch's river business--now run by his grandson--is still one of the best known in the country.

Riverman: The Story of Bus Hatch

Roy Webb

Fretwater Press

Originally published in 1998 as All My Rivers Are Gone, Katie Lee's beloved homage to Glen Canyon in now back in print with new photographs, an index, and a fiery new afterword by the author.

Glen Canyon Betrayed

Katie Lee

Biography of America's great river runner, Buzz Holmstrom: the first to run the Green and Colorado Rivers alone in 1937. Born in the coastal logging communities of coastal Oregon, Holmstrom built his own wooden boats and soloed several of the country's great whitewater rivers. He died mysteriously on the Grande Ronde River at age 37.

The Doing of the Thing: The Brief, Brilliant Whitewater Career of Buzz Holmstrom (New Edition)

Dimock, Brad

Conley, Cort

Welch, Vince

Biographies & Memoirs

Mike Ford has assembled this logical sequel to Farquhar's 1953 "Books of the Colorado River & Grand Canyon" (ISBN 1892327147). Ford takes the next 50 years' worth of books, selects the 225 most significant, and describes their content and importance. This resource is an invaulable tool for anyone who would truly know the Colorado Plateau and the rivers and canyons that dissect it. A great companion to the new Farquhar reprint, or a fine reference on its own.

The Books of the Grand Canyon, the Colorado River, The Green River & The Colorado Plateau; A Selective Bibliography, 1953-2003

History

Ford, Mike S.

Americas

Colorado River Chronicles: The Brave Ones and Every Rapid Speaks Plainly

Ellsworth L. Kolb

A boating history of the Colorado River and Grand Canyon.

The Rapids and the Roar

GAYLORD STAVELEY

Taking Big Red: The Colorado River - Grand Canyon Water War

The Doing of the Thing

The story of Bert Loper's quest to run every rapid of the Grand Canyon-- at seventy years old.  A fascinating tale of adventure int he American West.

The Very Hard Way: Bert Loper and the Colorado River

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Books by Fretwater Press

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Riverman: The Story of Bus Hatch

Glen Canyon Betrayed

The Doing of the Thing: The Brief, Brilliant Whitewater Career of Buzz Holmstrom (New Edition)

The Books of the Grand Canyon, the Colorado River, The Green River & The Colorado Plateau; A Selective Bibliography, 1953-2003

Colorado River Chronicles: The Brave Ones and Every Rapid Speaks Plainly

The Rapids and the Roar

Taking Big Red: The Colorado River - Grand Canyon Water War

Taking Big Red: The Colorado River - Grand Canyon Water War

The Doing of the Thing

The Very Hard Way: Bert Loper and the Colorado River