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Brave the wild river : the untold story of two women who mapped the botany of the Grand Canyon Cover Image Book Book
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Brave the wild river : the untold story of two women who mapped the botany of the Grand Canyon

Sevigny, Melissa L. 1986- (author.).

Summary: The story of two pioneering female botanists, Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter, and their historic 1938 boat trip down the Colorado River which led them to be the first to survey and catalog the plant life of the Grand Canyon.

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  • ISBN: 9780393868234
  • Physical Description: 290 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
    print
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2023]

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-280) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Prologue: Stranded -- On the Borders of Precipices -- Have You Seen That River? -- A Mighty Poor Place for Women -- There Goes the Mexican Hat! -- A Beautiful Pea-Green Boat -- Delayed -- Hell, Yes! What River? -- Paradise -- A Most Unusual and Hazardous Means -- A Hundred Personalities -- Lonely for the River -- Heaven As I Go Along -- Legendary -- Epilogue: A Woman's Place.

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Subject: Jotter Cutter, Lois 1914-2013 Travel Arizona Grand Canyon
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Nevills Expedition (1938)
Botany Arizona Grand Canyon History 20th century
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Scientific expeditions Arizona Grand Canyon History 20th century
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Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) Discovery and exploration
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Genre: Biographies.
Travel writing.

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  • 30 of 33 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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Albright Memorial Library 917.913 SEVIGNY (Text) 50686016300944 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library 917.913 SEV (Text) 37268003178852 AHMFL Adult Non-Fiction Available -
Altoona Area Public Library 917.9132 SEV (Text) 33240004694850 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Annie Halenbake Ross Library 917.9132 Sev (Text)
Memorial: In Memoriam of Charles M. Flaig
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