| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.1

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Book Review

Hell or High Water: James White's Disputed Passage through Grand Canyon, 1867. By Eilean Adams. (Logan: Utah State University Press, 2001. 220 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography. $39.95, cloth; $19.95, paper.)

Eilean Adams's Hell or High Water continues a flood of histories concerning man in Grand Canyon that began with David Lavender's River Runners of the Grand Canyon (Tucson, 1985). Since then a dozen books about some aspect of Grand Canyon history have appeared, many referring to James White, who may have been the first person to travel through the canyon by river. After reading Hell or High Water, I am convinced that he was. 1

Although Adams, White's granddaughter, has a personal interest in proving that White beat Major John Wesley Powell down the Colorado River, she presents a well-documented, soundly-researched case, both believable in its simplicity and reliable in its complexity. She wants to clear her grandfather's name, but she also wants to find the truth. . . .

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