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Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 15:32:47 -0600
From: Nat Case <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: US coast to coast by water <fwd>
Sender: Nat Case <[log in to unmask]>



Or what about the Erie Canal?

Nat Case
Hedberg Maps, Inc

>
>I'm reading this Least Heat Moon book right now.
>
>I was very surprised that they took the land route from Lake Erie
>over to Chautauqua Lake and then over land again to the
>Allegheny River.  It seems like you would just stay on the water
>and go around the great lakes to Chicago, and then down the
>Illinois River to St. Louis.  You miss some of the eastern
>heartland of the US, but you get to stay on the water.
>
>
>Mike Flannigan
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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
>>
>>  ==========================
>>  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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