 But back then, it was even more sparsely populated. Brian Wedemeyer wrote about this incident in 2000 when he was a reporter at the Lake Havasu City Today News Herald. The headline dubbed it, The Battle for the Colorado. He went on to become a history teacher, then a principal. He's also a nonfiction author. His most recent book looks at the witnesses who didn't make it to the stand in the O.J. Simpson case.