In the 1950s, Lee’s Ferry was an isolated U.S. Geological Survey outpost. Located at the confluence of the Colorado and Paria Rivers near the mouth of the Grand Canyon, few federal employees wanted the post. But for Dean and Edna Tidball, Lee’s Ferry fulfilled a long-held dream to live like latter-day pioneers. The River Years is the true story of how one family’s fantasy of escaping modern society crashed headlong into the realities of the Atomic Age along the muddy banks of an unrelenting river.