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Westwater Lost and Found | 
 enlarge | Author: Mike Milligan
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1192462
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 0.8
ISBN: 0874215722
Dewey Decimal Number: 979.2
EAN: 9780874215724
ASIN: 0874215722
Publication Date: February 1, 2004
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Product Description
Upstream from Moab on the Colorado River, near Utahs eastern border, there is a relatively short, deep canyon that has become one of the most popular river-running destinations in America. The canyon is known as Westwater. Its popularity is largely due to the thrill provided by one of the most dangerous and challenging stretches of white water on the Colorado, especially Skull Rapid. Near the head of the canyon are the remnants of the village of Westwater, which has had an interesting and eventful history of its own because of the river and canyon, the railroad that passes through, and especially its remoteness. Over the years this place has attracted more than its fair share of colorful charactersexplorers and surveyors, boosters and get-rich-quick dreamers, cattle and sheep men, outlaws and bootleggers, and, of course, river runners. Mike Milligan, who came to know the area as a river guide, has written a thorough history of this out-of-the-way place. While its lively history is interesting in and of itself, Westwaters significance derives more from a phenomenon of the modern Westthousands of adventurous river recreationists. They have pushed a backwater place into the foreground of the Wests popular culture. Westwaters history cycled through use by Native Americans; late exploration and settlement by non-Indians; brief ranching and farming success; other sporadic, unsuccessful attempts at development; and renewed obscurity. Modern rediscovery through outdoors recreation has brought a great number of people into thousands of similarly remote corners of the West. Mike Milligan has captured the still developing story of one of those remote, but no longer secluded, corners of the Colorado Plateau.
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Regional book review by a person in the region May 14, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is written by a rafting guide who was captivated by Westwater Canyon, on the Colorado River, close to the Colorado border. This canyon has a treacherous section called Skull rapids, where my own cousin drowned in a rafting accident. The author, after guiding for 5 years, took his mother on a trip through Westwater Canyon, and lost her when their raft overturned (yes, she drowned). At that point his relationship with the canyon became more complicated. During an exodus from the area after that accident, he continued to be obcessed with the subject, and continued working on his book about it. This is not just a book on rafting the canyon. It starts with the early history of the region, from Native Americans, to the little town of Westwater that sprung up as a railroad town. In addition to the history of pioneer rafters, it covers farmers, outlaws, miners, cattlemen and sheepmen. As a native of the eastern Colorado, western Utah region this story takes place in, and a local history buff, I would give this book a good rating on all counts. Having also lost a relative in Westwater canyon, my bond with the author may be stronger than the normal reader.
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