[Main] Salmon River Scroll Map Jones, Leslie Allen Western Rivers

Mimeograph scroll map [18.5 cm x 498 cm] [7.25" x 196"] on paper. Near fine. Highly detailed river runner's guide to floating the Salmon from the confluence of the Middle Fork [of the Salmon] - shows the put-in at Flying G Kitchen/CR Ranch, five miles downstream from the present-day put-in just below the confluence and Cramer 'De-rig' Rapid. Shows the take-out at Van Creek (no Vinegar Creek?) with five miles to Riggins. Buckskin Bill's place is not located, which seems strange. Hot springs are located. Map notes all of the major rapids and the move at the top (left to right, etc). Also contains mileage and tips (lunch spots and campsites) for boaters, as well as an elevation table. Table showing American whitewater rating system for rapids. The [Main] Salmon is a spicy 80 mile float down the 'River of No Return' and through the Frank Church Wilderness. Leslie A. Jones was born in Montana in 1922. He developed his love for rivers early on living by the Missouri River. It was not unusual for him to be found at that time rowing a boat under the moonlight fishing for catfish. Jones remained in Montana for his professional training as a civil engineer. In 1953, he moved to Salt Lake City. In the same year, Jones rafted the Lodore Canyon of the Green River with his cousins. This raft trip was in conjunction with the Sierra Club's attempt to create awareness about a proposed dam that would have flooded the canyon. It was on the same trip that Jones began to combine his love of river running and civil engineering. A broken oar compelled Jones to develop a self-support single person craft. Over the years, he has made several contributions to canoe and kayak designs. "I d noticed when I d run with the Sierra Club the rapids all kind of ran together as a blur, and I couldn t remember the details well enough, and I didn t have any identification points. So I started my scroll maps I didn t like the wind on the U.S. Geological [Survey] maps, so I started building my scroll maps. "The outline of the maps was taken either from aerial photographs and drawn artfully, or traced directly from the contour maps of the U.S. Geological Survey, putting the river end-to-end, instead of cut up in segments like the USGS did, . . . so I could line the river out on a seven-inch scroll strip and then take it from one end to the other, without having to run off the scroll. . . . And then putting a profile of the river . . . wherever it fit best. . . . We had to put them on paper, for lack of mylar. Then we put them on mylar" - Les Jones These maps were made by Jones to order, and we are unable to find a print run for this map, but one would presume it to be small, and as this is a 17-foot paper map that was intended to use for navigating white water, we would presume that very few of these survived.