THE COLORADO RUNS WILD

About the Book

Early settlers in Imperial Valley wet their beds to stay cool on hot summer nights. They lived in tents, made homemade filters for their water and rode miles to see their neighbor. It was worth it because the land was fertile and the newly built irrigation system provided all they needed for bountiful crops.

And then the flood came.

About the Author

Richard Taylor lives in the Imperial Valley he writes about. He has spent hours in the Pioneer?s Museum and the Imperial Irrigation District?s headquarters building, reading traces of the early days in diaries and journals of the early settlers. The blistering sun and gritty sand of the California desert have left their stamp on him. It?s country. It?s desert. It?s hot. He and his wife love it.