The McKenzie Drift Boat Story: Most people don’t know the drift boat was born right here on the McKenzie River. Back in the early 1900s, guides were rowing scows, flat-bottomed freight boats built to haul cargo. They were heavy, hard to row, and clumsy in the rapids. By the 1920s, local guides like John and Roy West, and later Veltie Pruitt, started experimenting with smaller and lighter boats. For the first time, boats were being built for this river, not just borrowed from somewhere else. In t

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