Reading America’s Rivers

Tracing America’s great rivers this summer along the Lewis and Clark Trail, Clay rediscovers the power and beauty of William Least Heat-Moon’s forgotten classic, River-Horse: A Voyage Across America.
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The Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers join, forming the headwaters of the Ohio River in Pittsburg, Penn. The Ohio River then flows southwestward, eventually joining the Mississippi at Cairo, Illinois.

Following the Ohio River on the Lewis and Clark Trail

One of America’s truly grand rivers, The Ohio ranks eighth in length in the United States but second in volume.
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Labor Day on the Glorious Little Missouri River — Video Dispatch

I visited the Little Missouri River in the Badlands of North Dakota over the Labor Day weekend. Of all the rivers I know, the Little Missouri is the most sacred to me.
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