"If they hadn't found that paper with my name on it, given what i now know about how estranged he was from his family, sky would have just vanished from the earth," she says. "It did kind of sting me a little bit in a kind of sensof like, your part of the problem."
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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