Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon by Melissa L. Sevigny

Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon by Melissa L. Sevigny. This is a great true story of two female botonists at the Univ. of Michigan, who in 1938 chartered with a river rafter to go through the Grand Canyon on the Colorado river. The aim was to catalog the botony of the canyon, which had not been done previously. They assumed they would find new species in this isolated area and they were right. The 2 women and 4 men started at the Green river and then went down the Colorado to Lake Mead. This was long before the Glen Canyon damn was built so this is a great story of the wild Colorado. At that time only a handful of people had rafted the Colorado, and they were the first women to do so.