In June 2015, author/historian Jim Turner traveled from the sources of the Green River in Wyoming and the Colorado River in Colorado all the way to the Gulf of California, visiting national parks and monuments along the rivers, towns like Pinedale, Glenwood Springs, Green River Utah, taking pictures and gathering information for his book. In The Mighty Colorado, he covers everything from geology, geography, history, wildlife, and culture of the Colorado River Basin, which covers more ground than Spain and Portugal combined. Jim Turner presents several highlights from that trip, just the tip of the glacier, so to speak.
 
 
Jim Turner Biosketch
 
Jim Turner earned his masters degree in U.S. history from the University of Arizona in 1999. He retired as historian for the Arizona Historical Society in 2009 to write Arizona: A Celebration of the Grand Canyon State. His new pictorial book, The Mighty Colorado River from the Glaciers to the Gulf, is one of True West magazine’s top travel books of the year. Turner has been an Arizona historian since 1976, and says, “I’ve been a speaker for more than twenty years and was only boring for the first five.”
 
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