They Overcame Hazards and Doubters to Make Botanical History
Briefly

BRAVE THE WILD RIVER: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon, by Melissa L. Sevigny Let's start this story on a sun-blistered evening in August 1938.A small band of adventurers had just concluded a 43-day journey from Utah to Nevada although perhaps journey is too tame a description for a trip that had required weeks of small wooden boats tumbling down more than 600 miles of rock-strewn rivers.
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