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River Horse: The Logbook of a Boat across America by William Least Heat-Moon is a book which documents the author's journey in a small boat across America. His goal was to cross the United States from east to west in a single season using only rivers and internal waterways with no more than 75 miles of portage.

In the book he is acompanied by Pilotis who is a composite of 7 successive companions he had on the voyage.

The Boat was a C-Dory built named Nikawa, a name coined by the author from the Osage words ni and kawa, meaning river and horse, respectively.

The Hudson River

 * A Celestial Call to Board: Launched the boat on Earth Day 1995 at Elizabeth, New Jersey on Newark Bay, went through Kill Van Kull to New York Harbor, passed Fort Wadsworth on the north end of Staten Island, went under the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge passed Coney Island and Gravesend Bay into the Atlantic Ocean. Then returned to the East River and New York City
 * Up Rivers without Sources: Entered Buttermilk Channel next to Governors Island, passed Manhattan, the South Street Seaport, Brooklyn, Wallabout Bay, and Roosevelt Island. Passed through Hell Gate to Astoria and Ward's Island. Entered the Harlem River, Spuyten Duyvil Creek and then the Hudson River near Yonkers and New Jersey Palisades. Docked at the foot of the Tappan Zee Bridge at Tarrytown.
 * There Lurk the Skid Demon: (April 23) Passed Sing Sing, Point No Point, Croton Point, Stony Point, Dunderberg Mountain, Devil's Horse Race, Bear Mountain, Hessian Lake Garrison, New York
 * A Drowned River: Hudson Highlands West Point Constitution Island Cold Spring Storm King Mountain Catskill Aqueduct
 * Where Mohicans Would Not Sleep: Pollepel Island (Bannerman's Castle) Poughkeepsie Rondout Creek
 * Snowmelt and a Nameless Creek: Kingston, New York Catskill Coxackie Albany, New York Troy, New York

The Erie Canal

 * The Pull of a Continent:
 * Released from the Necessity of Mundane Toil:
 * Like Jonah, We Enter the Leviathan:
 * Knuticals and Hangman's Rope:
 * We Sleep with a Bad-Tempered Woman Tossed by Fever:

The Columbia River
Henry Collins Brown, The Lordly Hudson (1937)