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Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 14:03:53 -0500
From: Howard Stone <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: US coast to coast by water <fwd>
Sender: Howard Stone <[log in to unmask]>


See also Across the U.S.A.--By Boat, by Bill and Kathy Dimond. It was
published in 1970 by John Day.

Howard Stone, Brown Univ.

At 12:52 PM 1/24/02 -0500, you wrote:
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>Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 21:30:52 -0700
>From: Ben Harding <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: US coast to coast by water
>Sender: Ben Harding <[log in to unmask]>
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>Some time ago there was an inquiry about the possibility of
>traversing the U.S. by water.  I posted that inquiry to
>[log in to unmask], a list supporting discussion of river
>issues.  Among the spirited discussion was the following message
>from Brad Dimock with some information that might be interesting to
>Maps-L people.
>
>Ben Harding
>
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>See The Doing of the Thing, by Conley, Welch and myself. One
>chapter gives an account of a coast to coast via the Columbia,
>Snake, Yellowstone, Missouri, Mississippi, Ohio, Allegheny,
>Niagara, Erie Canal, Mohawk and Hudson. Lewis Freeman did a
>similar trip in the 20s or 30s, and William Least Heat Moon did one
>recently memorialized in his book Riverhorse. On each of these
>there are many reservoir crossings and a few substantial portages.
>
>-- Brad Dimock
>Fretwater Press
>1000 Grand Canyon Avenue Flagstaff, Arizona 86001
>928 774 8853  fax 928 779 9552  cell 928 853 2007
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