John Rich
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8/20/2018 10:20 PM
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I just remembered that I did a book review on this in the past.
See here: "River Horse" - go to page 8.
He used motors, and still needed a trailer to get around dams.
- John RIch
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Harmon
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8/20/2018 9:34 PM
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OOOH! William Least Heat-Moon. I'll have to get it! Sounds Great!
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John Rich
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8/20/2018 4:13 PM
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The book:
"River Horse: A Voyage Across America"
https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-395-63626-8
Sorry, can't make a link, because our web host is too screwed up to make it work. They can't even allow a copy-and-paste to work. The next newsletter may be chiseled in stone, and delivered by dinosaur.
- John Rich
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Bruce Bodson
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8/20/2018 3:56 PM
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Sure, just as long as the ideological purity of the enterprise isn't compromised by doing vehicular portages. :)
"He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair." H.D. Thoreau
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Harmon
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8/20/2018 3:32 PM
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One of these days, I'd like to start on the East Coast, paddle UP the Susquehanna as far west as it will go, then there is only a 50 mile portage or so, to get to the Allegheny, and follow it down to the Ohio. Down the Ohio to the Mississippi and then down to the Gulf. Or up the Mississippi to the Missouri, and up the Missouri to Three Forks, Montana. At that point, there is only another 50 mile portage to Clearwater River and thence down to the Snake, and into the Columbia, to the Pacific Coast. Who is in?
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