One of his brothers had brought along something that might contain a clue. He pulled out a stack of paper, hundreds of pages, and slid it across the table to ben they were typed manuscripts that dick had mailed to him over the years. It was an extended rift about dick's decision to call off one of his previous journeys a few hundred miles short of his tended destination. In these pages, he was sort of grappling with what the difference is between a man of courage and a damned fool.
The Ohio, Hudson, Mississippi, and Yellowstone — Dick Conant canoed them all. And then he disappeared.
In his riveting new book, “Riverman,” journalist Ben McGrath tries to track down the man who may be the greatest American folk hero you’ve never heard of.
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