In November of 1937, Buzz Holmstrom, an unknown service station attendant from the tiny logging town of Coquille, Oregon, made headlines across the country.  Alone, in a boat he designed and built himself, he navigated over a thousand miles of the rapid-strewn Green and Colorado Rivers.

Without saying much, he went back to work at the service station, where the press tracked him down.  How he came to have the boatbuilding or river running skills, or even the desire to do such a thing, was unclear.

Nine years and thousands of river miles later, Holmstrom’s body was found besides the Grande Ronde River in Oregon.  At 37, his story had ended in even greater mystery than it began. 

Now, fifty year later, three boatmen have brought to light a story about rivers and wooden boats, about heroes, humility, unbearable beauty, solitude, and death.  Holmstrom’s is the tales of a man’s lone struggles in a difficult and changing world.