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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
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>I'm reading this Least Heat Moon book right now.
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>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.
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>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]>
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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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