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Show 4540 Freeman- D 2559 Q Now, in these trips down the rivers have you operated boats yourself? A Are you referring to American rivers now? Q Yes. A In nearly every instance where it was not steamer travel I did so, very frequently alone, but where necessary with the aid of one or more boatmen, or, as in one of my Colorado river trips, under the direction of another boatman. Q As the result of you explorations and research, have you written any books on the western rivers? A Several books, yes. Q Tell me what books those are, please. A Down the Columbia, published about 1921; Down the Yellowstone, about 1922; the third, A History of the Colorado River, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, for which I had been collecting historical material for a long time. That was, as nearly as I could make it, a history of the river explorations and a study of the possibilities of future development. Following that, I wrote another Colorado river book called Down the Grand Canyon, which included an account of the voyage I had made through the Grand Canyon with a Geological Survey party in 1923, and a trip I made up and down Glen canyon the year previous, a voyage I had made through the delta of |
