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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]>


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
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