My third installment for things to be thankful for in America is the Snake River:

3. High along the Continental Divide is a great caldera filled with simmering geysers that shoot off their steam at regular intervals and those are the headwaters of a beautiful river system that drains much of the northwestern United States. The river starts in the land of earthquakes and mountains rising, flowing into the territory of its namesake, the Shoshone tribe. In the old days it was said that these people lived off of snakes, hence the name Snake River. It is one of the great rivers of the west and part of the larger Columbia River system. The Snake gouges the deepest canyon into the North American continent. The snows and rains of huge swaths of Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Wyoming flow into its body from Yellowstone National Park to the Tri-cities in Washington.