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<br />INTRODUCTION <br /> <br />The Green, Yampa, and White rivers, all Uinta Basin tribu- <br />taries of the Colorado River, inspire poetry, prose, and art like <br />beautiful rivers everywhere. But these are our rivers, the rivers we <br />know, and they have inspired our experiences: memories that have <br />lived long, taught lessons, and changed lives. As residents of this <br />valley, they are something we all share, our lifeblood. <br />In 2001 the Utah Humanities Council asked the Uintah <br />County Library Regional History Center to be one of three host <br />sites in the state for a traveling 2002 exhibit entitled "Moving <br />Waters: The Colorado River and the West." The exhibit and a <br />number of ancillary programs were funded by the National En- <br />dowment for the Humanities and the Ford Foundation, with <br />support from each of the humanities councils in the seven west- <br />ern states through which the Colorado River flows. <br />As we in the Regional History Center considered what our <br />local involvement should be in our month-long programming, <br />Library Director Evan Baker suggested we collect river experi- <br />ences from Basin residents and publish them as a volume in our <br />continuing Uintah County Library History Series. Soon after we <br />began advertising for these river stories, they started to pour in. <br />They came from river runners, biologists, Girl Scouts, grand- <br />mothers, ranchers, and historians. It quickly became apparent <br />that everyone who has ever been on the river has a story to telL <br /> <br />x <br />