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Former surfer, sailor, skier, boatman. |
Conley A river guide since 1968, and a fluvialorist specializing in Idaho, where lives with his twelve-year-old daughter Keats. |
Writer, |
| An Oregonian, Vince researched and wrote of Holmstrom's ancestry, birth and upbringing in southern Oregon; his first river trips on the Rogue River; and his tragic death on the Grande Ronde River in northeastern Oregon. | Cort, long time Idahoan, wrote of Holmstrom's trips in the northwest: his solo trip on the Salmon in 1937, and his 1939 uprun of the Columbia and Snake--a voyage that continued on America's waterways all the way to New York; and Buzz's navy years during World War II, when he served on PT boats in the South Pacific and Europe. | Brad spent many years on the rivers of the Southwest and brought his expertise into the chapters on Holmstrom's river trips, work, and travels there. |
| The Doing of the Thing
is a culmination of many years on the rivers of the American
West, combined with a growing curiosity about one of river running's
more alluring characters. The book itself was three years in
the making. An interesting note (Well, we think it's interesting): The book was written and compiled in three places at once--Oregon, Idaho and Arizona, where Vince, Cort and Brad respectively live. A vast majority of the intra-author communication and coordination took place digitally, on the infernal but already indispensable internet. Ten thousand e-mails later, a book has emerged. |
