I grew up on a river in the North Cascades. I spent my youth swimming and playing in and on the Methow River –and fishing. When the book "A River Runs Through It" was published in 1976, it was like narrative poetry, but with a flowing prose style. Rivers, mountains, and lakes are described majestically, in the way a boy who grew up on a river would devour. When Robert Redford produced the movie version featuring the Maclean boys from Missoula taking to fly fishing with their father –the videogra

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