Dave Rust

Evans Biography Award 2007 Turner-Bergera Best Biography Award 2008

"An extremely well-written historical biography that brings to light the life and exploits of David D. Rust." --Montana, The Magazine of Western History "Describes a visionary who ignored the conventional wisdom of the early 1900s and opened a rugged area to tourism." --Arizona Daily Sun "Swanson provides not only solid scholarship in terms of sources and citations but lively writing as well. His descriptions of the places Rust visited are vivid enough for the reader to picture in his or her mind." --Salt Lake City Weekly "Swanson, in his thoroughly researched and intelligently interpreted biography, has effectively established Rust's place in the history of the Colorado Plateau. [He] has placed all students of the Colorado Plateau in his debt with this fine, indeed indispensable, book." --Utah Historical Quarterly "This is a very significant work, for the reason that Rust was a very significant figure in Colorado River and Plateau history, yet nothing has ever appeared in print about him." --Roy Webb, University of Utah "With Swanson's engaging style, this book will appeal to readers interested in canyon country guiding and river running and in the history of the Colorado Plateau in general." --New Mexico Historical Review