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Index
Title Page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Dedication
The Boat
THE HUDSON RIVER
Iconogram I
A Celestial Call to Board
Up Rivers Without Sources
There Lurk the Skid Demon
A Drowned River
Where Mohicans Would Not Sleep
Snowmelt and a Nameless Creek
THE ERIE CANAL
Iconogram II
The Pull of a Continent
Released from the Necessity of Mundane Toil
Like Jonah, We Enter a Leviathan
Knoticals and Hangman’s Rope
We Sleep with a Bad-Tempered Woman Tossed by Fever
THE LAKES
Iconogram III
Hoisting the Blue Peter
How the Sun Rose in the West to Set Me Straight
THE ALLEGHENY RIVER
Iconogram IV
An Ammonia Cocktail and a Sharp Onion-Knife
A Flight of Eagles, an Iron Bed, and So Forth
Unlimited Sprawl Area
Zing, Boom, Tararel!
THE OHIO RIVER
Iconogram V
Proving the White Man a Liar
The Day Begins with a Goonieburger
Enamel Speaks
Along the Track of the Glaciers
From Humdrummery on down toward Tedium
A History of the Ohio in Three Words: Mastodons to Condoms
A River Coughed Up from Hell
A Necessity of Topography and Heart
Nekked and Without No Posies
Eyeless Fish with Eight Tails
The Great Omphalos in Little Egypt
THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
Iconogram VI
A Night Without Light on a River Without Exits
The Ghost of the Mississippi
Of Swampsuckers and Samaritans
To the Tune of “Garry Owen” We Get Ready
THE LOWER MISSOURI RIVER
Iconogram VII
We Start up the Great Missouri
I Attach My Life to the Roots of a Cottonwood
A Language with No Word for Flood
Looking the River in the Eye
Clustered Coincidences and Peach Pie
Gone with the Windings
Pilotis’s Cosmic View Gets Bad News
The Dream Lines of Thomas Jefferson
A Water Snake across the Bow
Sacred Hoops and a Wheel of Cheddar
THE UPPER MISSOURI RIVER
Iconogram VIII
We Find the Fourth Missouri
The Phantom Ship of the Missouri Reeds
How to Steal Indian Land
A Conscientious Woman
Flux, Fixes, and Flumdiddle
Sitting Bull and the Broom of Heaven
How to Be a Hell of a Riverman
Yondering up the Broomsticks
Chances of Aught to Naught
We Walk under the Great River
Why Odysseus Didn’t Discover America
Pilotis Concocts an Indian Name for God
Trickles, Dribbles, and Gurglets
My Life Becomes a Preposition
Little Gods and Small Catechisms
Eating Lightning
Imprecating the Wind
Into the Quincunx
Planning for Anything Less than Everything
Over the Ebullition
Ex Aqua Lux et Vis
Weaknesses in Mountains and Men
A Nightmare Alley
No Huzzahs in the Heart
THE MOUNTAIN STREAMS
Iconogram IX
We Meet Mister Eleven
Eating the Force that Drives Your Life
An Ark from God or a Miracle of Shoshones
A Shameless Festal Board
THE SALMON RIVER
Iconogram X
Bungholes and Bodacious Bounces
THE SNAKE RIVER
Iconogram XI
My Hermaphroditic Quest
Kissing a Triding Keepsake
Messing About in Boats
THE COLUMBIA RIVER
Iconogram XII
The Far Side of the River Cocytus
Place of the Dead
Theater of the Graveyard
A Badger Called Plan A
Robot of the River
A Taproom Fit for Raggedy Ann
Salt to Salt, Tide to Tide
THE PACIFIC OCEAN
An Afterword of Appreciation
If You Want to Help
About the Author
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