Down the Colorado: Travels on a Western Waterway
- ISBN-10
- 0911797548
- ISBN-13
- 9780911797541
- Series
- Down the Colorado
- Category
- Travel
- Pages
- 141
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1989
- Publisher
- Roberts Rinehart Pub
- Author
- Jim Carrier
Description
“ But it made me feel like Charlton Heston . " The story , which Schoch retold on another after - hours hike up the same path , says a lot about the monument . A small place , full of serendipity , where a ranger will work on his own ...
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