The Doing of the Thing: The Brief, Brilliant Whitewater Career of Buzz Holmstrom (New Edition)
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PublisherFretwater Press
ISBN / ASIN1892327074
ISBN-139781892327079
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Sales Rank696,471
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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Biography of America's great river runner, Buzz Holmstrom: the first to run the Green and Colorado Rivers alone in 1937. Born in the coastal logging communities of coastal Oregon, Holmstrom built his own wooden boats and soloed several of the country's great whitewater rivers. He died mysteriously on the Grande Ronde River at age 37.
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