The Doing Of The Thing

This is a story about rivers and wooden boats, about heroes, humility, unbearable beauty, solitude and sudden death. Holmstrom straddled the old and the new West, and he ushered in the era of modern river running--not through his superb oarsmanship, though his rowing feats still stand today as singular achievements; nor with his evolution of boat design--but through his relationship to the River itself and the solace he sought there from an increasingly complex world.