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Show RIVER At the point I watched the River of the East meet the River of the West. Out of the east came the Ohio, wider than the Mississippi, swollen with Appalachian spring floods. From the west came the Missouri-Mississippi, a brown and green torrent of thick mud pulled down from the Rockies and the Black Hills and the Great Plains. Joining at Cairo, these rivers become the great American river. The River of the West is fed by the Milk and the Marias and the Musselshell and the Moreau, the Bighorn and the Little Bighorn, the Powder and the Yellowstone, the Belle Fourche, the Cheyenne and the Sheyenne, the Arikaree, the Kickapoo, the Chippewa, the Niobrara, the Keya Paha, the Wapsipnicon, the Osage, the Greybull, the Tongue, the Crow, the Sioux, and the the Laramie; the Minnesota and the Iowa and the Wisconsin and the Kansas and the Illinois and the Cannonball; the Cedar and the Des Moines, the Frenchman and the Platte, North and South, the St. Croix and the Solomon and the Smokey Hill, the Judith and the Zumbro and the Root, the Turkey, the Snake, the Racoon, the Elkhorn, and the Mackinaw and the Beaverhead and the Kettle, the Salamonie and the Sangamon, the Wakarusa, the Wakenda, the Wyaconda, the Calamus and the Pecatonica and the Sugar, the Nishnabotna, the Kaskaskia, the Big Hole, the Big Muddy, the Big Porcupine, the Wood and the Box Elder and the Cottonwood and the Elm and the Maple and the Poplar, the Bitterroot, the Marais des Cygnes, the Gasconade, the Loup, the Teton, the Sun, the Meramec, the Chariton, the Sweetwater and the Redwater and the Redstone, the Vermilion and the Green and the Yellow, the James, the Floyd, the Fabius, the Boyer, the Grand, the Mzpah, the Snake and the Buffalo and the Skunk, the Spoon, the Nodaway, the Medicine Bow, the Wild Rice and the Pumpkin, the Dearborn, the Jefferson and the Madison and the Gallatin and the Henderson and the Heart, the Rock and the -17- |