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Norman D. Nevills (April, 1908 - September 19, 1949) was a pioneer of commercial river-running in the American Southwest, particularly the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. He led trips including Dr. Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter, the first two women to successfully float the Grand Canyon, and Barry Goldwater. Nevills was the son of William E. and Mae Davies Nevills of California. The elder Nevills left California in 1921 to pursue a career in oil drilling. He became interested in running rivers, floating the San Juan River in an open boat in 1924. Norman moved to Mexican Hat, Utah in 1927 after two years of college at the College of the Pacific in Stockton, California. He adopted his father's interest in running rivers.
Although most of Nevills' river trips were on the San Juan, he ran seven trips through the Grand Canyon. Nevills' chance for fame came in 1938, when he'd the opportunity to escort Dr. Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter, two botanists from the University of Michigan who wished to catalog the flora of the Grand Canyon, from Green River, Wyoming, to Lake Mead. They encountered extraordinarily high water at the confluence of the San Juan and the Colorado, but finished the trip without serious incident. Their 43-day, 666-mile trip generated a lot of publicity for Nevills.
In ten years of leading paying customers down the Colorado, San Juan, and Green Rivers, Nevills never lost a customer. Magazines and newspapers labeled him "The World’s No. 1 Fast-Water Man."

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