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Tables of Contents for River Horse
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
My Lotic Mates
xi
The Boat
xv
The Hudson River
A Celestial Call to Board
3
5
Up Rivers Without Sources
8
6
There Lurk the Skid Demon
14
5
A Drowned River
19
5
Where Mohicans Would Not Sleep
24
6
Snowmelt and a Nameless Creek
30
7
The Erie Canal
The Pull of a Continent
37
6
Released from the Necessity of Mundane Toil
43
7
Like Jonah, We Enter the Leviathan
50
6
Knoticals and Hangman's Rope
56
5
We Sleep with a Bad-Tempered Woman Tossed by Fever
61
8
The Lakes
Hoisting the Blue Peter
69
7
How the Sun Rose in the West to Set Me Straight
76
7
The Allegheny River
An Ammonia Cocktail and a Sharp Onion-Knife
83
8
A Flight of Eagles, an Iron Bed, and So Forth
91
5
Unlimited Sprawl Area
96
5
Zing, Boom, Tararel!
101
6
The Ohio River
Proving the White Man a Liar
107
7
The Day Begins with a Goonieburger
114
9
Enamel Speaks
123
4
Along the Track of the Glaciers
127
5
From Humdrummery on down toward Tedium
132
5
A History of the Ohio in Three Words
137
9
A River Coughed Up from Hell
146
3
A Necessity of Topography and Heart
149
7
Nekked and Without No Posies
156
5
Eyeless Fish with Eight Tails
161
5
The Great Omphalos in Little Egypt
166
7
The Mississippi River
A Night Without Light on a River Without Exits
173
5
The Ghost of the Mississippi
178
3
Of Swampsuckers and Samaritans
181
5
To the Tune of ``Garry Owen'' We Get Ready
186
7
The Lower Missouri River
We Start up the Great Missouri
193
7
I Attach My Life to the Roots of a Cottonwood
200
3
A Language with No Word for Flood
203
6
Looking the River in the Eye
209
5
Clustered Coincidences and Peach Pie
214
6
Gone with the Windings
220
6
Pilotis's Cosmic View Gets Bad News
226
5
The Dream Lines of Thomas Jefferson
231
6
A Water Snake Across the Bow
237
5
Sacred Hoops and a Wheel of Cheddar
242
7
The Upper Missouri River
We Find the Fourth Missouri
249
8
The Phantom Ship of the Missouri Reeds
257
6
How to Steal Indian Land
263
7
A Conscientious Woman
270
5
Flux, Fixes, and Flumdiddle
275
9
Sitting Bull and the Broom of Heaven
284
5
How to Be a Hell of a Riverman
289
9
Yondering up the Broomsticks
298
5
Chances of Aught to Naught
303
5
We Walk under the Great River
308
6
Why Odysseus Didn't Discover America
314
7
Pilotis Concocts an Indian Name for God
321
4
Trickles, Dribbles, and Gurglets
325
6
My Life Becomes a Preposition
331
12
Little Gods and Small Catechisms
343
3
Eating Lightning
346
6
Imprecating the Wind
352
4
Into the Quincunx
356
13
Planning for Anything Less than Everything
369
5
Over the Ebullition
374
3
Ex Aqua Lux et Vis
377
7
Weaknesses in Mountains and Men
384
4
A Nightmare Alley
388
5
No Huzzahs in the Heart
393
8
The Mountain Streams
We Meet Mister Eleven
401
8
Eating the Force that Drives Your Life
409
4
An Ark from God or a Miracle of Shoshones
413
5
A Shameless Festal Board
418
11
The Salmon River
Bungholes and Bodacious Bounces
429
20
The Snake River
My Hermaphroditic Quest
449
5
Kissing a Triding Keepsake
454
4
Messing About in Boats
458
7
The Columbia River
The Far Side of the River Cocytus
465
8
Place of the Dead
473
6
Theater of the Graveyard
479
3
A Badger Called Plan A
482
7
Robot of the River
489
4
A Taproom Fit for Raggedy Ann
493
5
Salt to Salt, Tide to Tide
498
7
An Afterword of Appreciation
505
2
If You Want to Help
507