Roy Webb

The book contains in more or less chronological order the history of adventurers who ran the Green River from Green River, Wyoming down to the confluence with the Colorado. It's replete with stories of John Wesley Powell, William Manly, William Ashley, the Kolb Brothers, Julius Stone, etc. The book also describes the technological advances in boating from Ashley's willow and buffalo skin bull boats through Powell's heavy, oaken row boats, to fold...

The story of Bus Hatch is actually a collection of stories -- an intricate, interwoven tale about men and rivers. More than any other outdoor sport, river running has an extensive oral tradition that's usually passed on while shooting the bull around a riverside campfire. It's a story without end. The founder of Hatch River Expeditions, Bus Hatch started running western rivers in the early 1930's before the great dams, government control, and commercial...