![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For those who already know of Holmstrom and want more, and for those who have yet to meet him, Every Rapid Speaks Plainly provides a fuller and deeper look into one of America’s premier boatmen. The accounts of Holmstrom’s three companion sin 1938 round out the tale. Now Brad Dimock has faithfully transcribed Holmstrom’s own journals and letters of Holmstrom’s journeys down the Salmon and Snake Rivers in 1936, and the Green and Colorado in ’37 and ’38. Interest in Holmstrom soared far beyond the small world of whitewater, The biography is well told, but it is Holmstrom’s own writing, sensitive and perceptive, witty yet humble, that sets Holstrom apart from his peers and gives him a place in our hearts. In 1998 Wince Welch, Cort Conley, and Brad Dimock pubslihed their award-winning biography of Holmstrom, The Doing of the Thing. Yet he soon returned tot the obscurity of Coquille, Oregon, and faded from the memories of all but a few whitewater boatmen. ![]() EVERY RAPID SPEAKS PLAINLY: THE SALMON, GREEN, AND COLORADO RIVER JOURNALS OF BUZZ HOLMSTROM (COLORADO RIVER CHRONICLES), by Buzz Holmstrom, edited by Brad Dimockīuzz Holmstrom amazed the country in 1937 when he built his small wooden boat and rowed, solo, down the thousand rapid-choked miles of the Green and Colorado Rivers. ![]()
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