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Dave Rust

A Life in the Canyons
  • ISBN-13: 9780874809442
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF UTAH PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF UTAH PRESS
  • By Frederick Swanson
  • Price: AUD $51.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 28/10/2008
  • Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 384 pages Weight: 626g
  • Categories: Autobiography: general [BGA]
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A fascinating biography of Dave Rust, a young placer miner from Caineville, Utah. Rust fulfilled his dream of taking adventurous travelers through the stunning Glen Canyon in his little canvas-covered canoes. By that time he had amassed a comprehensive knowledge of the geologic wonders of the Colorado Plateau province of Utah and Arizona.
Evans Biography Award 2007 Turner-Bergera Best Biography Award 2008
"An extremely well-written historical biography that brings to light the life and exploits of David D. Rust." --Montana, The Magazine of Western History "Describes a visionary who ignored the conventional wisdom of the early 1900s and opened a rugged area to tourism." --Arizona Daily Sun "Swanson provides not only solid scholarship in terms of sources and citations but lively writing as well. His descriptions of the places Rust visited are vivid enough for the reader to picture in his or her mind." --Salt Lake City Weekly "Swanson, in his thoroughly researched and intelligently interpreted biography, has effectively established Rust's place in the history of the Colorado Plateau. [He] has placed all students of the Colorado Plateau in his debt with this fine, indeed indispensable, book." --Utah Historical Quarterly "This is a very significant work, for the reason that Rust was a very significant figure in Colorado River and Plateau history, yet nothing has ever appeared in print about him." --Roy Webb, University of Utah "With Swanson's engaging style, this book will appeal to readers interested in canyon country guiding and river running and in the history of the Colorado Plateau in general." --New Mexico Historical Review
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