There is this disconnect in dick between his ambition and his achievement, or his execution. So it's not just ambition so much as, i think, living up to expectations. And he really never succeeds in doing right by his talents until he reinvents himself as a river wanderer.
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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