CSPAN2 Book Discussion On People Of The Red Earth September 5, 2015
We are in downtown Grand Junction actually, along what is called the riverside trailed and there is the Colorado River in our background. The Colorado River has everything to do with my book, Wayne Aspinall and the shaping of the American West. Wayne aspinall grew up literally from age eight until the end of his life on the banks of this river. He was obsessed with it. He was obsessed with holding enough water from this river to be able to guarantee the future of not only colorado but the upper Colorado River basin and the western half of colorado which approximated his huge congressional dist...