Table of Contents
The great canoe trail / Robert McCaig -- The "Father of waters" / Robert T. Smith -- The Arkansas River and the Red / Bill Burchardt -- The Ohio River, throughway "for the West" / Robert West Howard -- George Washington's dream, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal / G.M. Farley -- Westward with Lewis and Clark, the great American adventure / Don Holm -- The Erie Canal / Phoebe and Todhunter Ballard -- The Great Lakes, gateway to the heartland / Theodore V. Olsen -- The Missouri and the Yellowstone / Rex Bundy and Edith Thompson Hall -- The Red River of the North / Rex Bundy -- Steamboats on Texas rivers / Elmer Kelton -- The Argonauts I, around the Horn / Paul Bailey -- The Argonauts II, those who chose the "short cut" / Paul Bailey -- The Sacramento / Bill Pronzini -- The Columbia, the great monopoly / Ellis Lucia -- Steamboat through hell, river traffic on the Colorado of the West / Donald H. Bufkin and C.L. Sonnichsen -- Puget Sound / Lucile McDonald -- The Yukon River / Archie Satterfield.