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Show 1078 the direction of another boatman. R. 2559 As a result of his explorations and research he has written several books. R. 2559 " Q. Tell me what books those are, please. " A. Referring just to the rivers? " 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 the river, and a voyage through the Alamo river, which takes the drainage of the Imperial Valley to Salton Sea, two hundred feet below sea level. " Q. Your book On the Roof of the Rockies, what did that deal with? " A. That was first published as an article for the National Geographic, under the title of Mother of Rivers. The Columbia ice fields to the roof of the Rockies is the only place in the world in which three major rivers head leaving to three major oceans, the Columbia to the Pacific, |
