Lee's Ferry: From Mormon Crossing to National Park
P.T. Reilly--expert riverman, backcountry explorer, river chronicler--published articles on the history of the Colorado River, but he died in 1996 before his big work, a detailed and dramatic history of Lee's Ferry was published. Robert H. Webb, author of _Grand Canyon: A Century of Change_, finished preparing this book for publication.  One of the few places where wheeled vehicles could approach the Colorado River in its long miles through deep canyons and, thus, a critical transportation and communication link, north and south and up and down the river, Lee's Ferry became a historical funnel. A fascinating miscellany of western characters passed through or stayed. Reilly gives most of them a turn in the spotlight as part of his robust story of an out-of-the-way place that came to be on the way.