The Very Hard Way: Bert Loper and the Colorado River
by Dimock, Brad
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About This Item
Flagstaff, AZ: Fretwater Press, 2007. First Edition. 456pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Tan cloth with the title stamped in red on the backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Map endsheets and pastedowns. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Bert Loper was born in 1869 the very day that Major John Wesley Powell discovered the confluence of the San Juan and Colorado Rivers. Loper spent much of his life devoted to those two streams. But it was never easy. Orphaned and abused, Loper worked most of his life at the very bottom, the nameless grunt in hard rock mines, the sore-backed shoveler on a placer bar, the subsistence rancher on a lonely gravel delta in Glen Canyon. Whatever Loper got, he got the very hard way.
But on the muddy whitewater streams of the Southwest, Loper found a joy, a thrill, and a peace. By the time he died at his oars in a Grand Canyon rapid at eighty, he had covered more river, run more boats, and known more rivermen than anyone. Two weeks before he vanished in the Colorado, the very first motorboat had run Grand Canyon--bookending Loper's incredible career.
But on the muddy whitewater streams of the Southwest, Loper found a joy, a thrill, and a peace. By the time he died at his oars in a Grand Canyon rapid at eighty, he had covered more river, run more boats, and known more rivermen than anyone. Two weeks before he vanished in the Colorado, the very first motorboat had run Grand Canyon--bookending Loper's incredible career.
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- Bookseller
- Tschanz Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7922
- Title
- The Very Hard Way: Bert Loper and the Colorado River
- Author
- Dimock, Brad
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Fretwater Press
- Place of Publication
- Flagstaff, AZ
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- Glen Canyon Colorado River Grand Canyon Big Water Rapids
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