Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter Cutter were the first women to successfully run the length of the river in the Grand Canyon. Dr. Elzada Clover was a botanist working as the curator of the University of Michigan’s botanical gardens. She was originally planning a mule trip through the Grand Canyon to identify cacti and succulents but conspired with Norm Nevills to turn it into a river trip. Lois Jotter Cutter was a graduate student at the time and joined her on the trip. Clover became the first botanist to record plant life in the canyon. A graduate student on the trip left after a conflict and was replaced with Emery Kolb.
![Botanical study of the Grand Canyon by Elsie Clover and Lois Jotter, first two women on the first commercial trip down the Colorado River [constructed title], 1938.</br><a href="http://archive.library.nau.edu/cdm/ref/collection/cpa/id/55847" target="_blank">Lois Jotter Cutter Collection NAU.PH.95.3</a>](https://library.nau.edu/speccoll/exhibits/grand-canyon-100/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/8.jpg "Botanical study of the Grand Canyon by Elsie Clover and Lois Jotter, first two women on the first commercial trip down the Colorado River [constructed title], 1938.")
Botanical study of the Grand Canyon by Elsie Clover and Lois Jotter, first two women on the first commercial trip down the Colorado River [constructed title], 1938.Lois Jotter Cutter Collection NAU.PH.95.3