Quest for Glory
Aug 24, 2021
2 minutes
—Bill Heard
Hardly had the first paddle wheeler nosed into the riverbank at Yuma than speculation began: How far up the Colorado River could a steamboat captain push? George A. Johnson meant to find out.
In 1856, Johnson persuaded California legislators to endorse an expedition to locate the Colorado’s “head of navigation,” meaning the upriver limit of large craft. With that leverage,
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