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3 weeks agoThis Nearly 2,000-mile Trail Crosses 8 States-and I Tackled It in 10 Days
Standing beneath a tangled canopy of highway overpasses at the edge of a muddy bluff, I watched the Missouri River churn below me. Its murky water rolled relentlessly onward, folding into eddies as it wound its way toward the Mississippi. Hundreds of years ago, this treacherous brown ribbon marked the frontier's edge; it was where the West got wild. Of course, I knew
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