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"In April of 1998, Chris Bechtold and his faithful dog Herschel embarked on the trip of a lifetime. Inexperienced with boats or big rivers and laden with minimal provisions, the two travelers set out with an abundance of determination to see the West unfold much as it had for Lewis & Clark and the Corp of Discovery two hundred years before. Starting at Camp Dubois, Illinois on the shore of the Mississippi River and culminating at the Pacific Ocean on the Oregon coast, Bechtold traveled over 3,100 miles in a fourteen-foot boat to search out the untamed West."--Back cover.