![]() ![]() ![]() Well publicized by newspapermen who suggested the trip was inappropriate and dangerous for women, stories written at the time underscored how females were then viewed and diminished. They were the only women on the small excursion to “botanize” the Grand Canyon. ![]() The bookish Jotter, then 23, joined Clover, an old school but stylish scientist who was then 41. Sevigny draws on the diaries of Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter to trace their 43-day sojourn in the summer of 1938. In “Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon,” science journalist Melissa L. ![]()
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