Last
fall I was able to see the canvas-covered canoes that Dave Rust used in Glen Canyon
during the 1920s and 1930s. They are stored at Grand Canyon National Park and
may someday be put on display. Quite a craft with which to tackle the Colorado's
current, even in Glen. | Dear
Readers,
After a busy year giving talks on Dave Rust to groups in Utah, Arizona, and Colorado, I'm focusing now on completing my book on G. M. Brandborg and the Bitterroot National Forest's historic clearcutting controversy. Expect a Fall 2010 publication date.
The
journal Weber, The Contemporary West features one of my essays in its Spring-Summer
2009 issue. Fans of the Dirty Devil River canyons might want to have a look. I
was honored to learn that this essay recently received the journal's O. Marvin
Lewis award for the best essay published during the last year.
Book news (fiction department)--if you're looking for a good political thriller, I'd recommend picking up Ill Wind in Egypt by my friend Jennifer Anderson. Jen worked as a foreign corresponent in the Middle East in the 1980s and has shaped her experiences there into an astutely written--and marvelously inventive--novel.
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