Rivers of the USA

Can you name the 20 longest rivers of America with the help of a couple hints?

Includes rivers that only have part of their length in the USA

By main branch of river

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Rank	Hint	Answer
1	Longest river in North America, tributary of #2	Missouri
2	River of Tom Sawyer	Mississippi
3	Part of the "rich man's route" to the Klondike	Yukon
4	Illegal immigrants cross this river	Rio Grande
5	Very little of this river's water actually reaches its mouth	Colorado
6	Second longest tributary of #2	Arkansas
7	Two famous explorers reached the ocean at this river's mouth	Columbia
8	But remember this colorful river's valley in a famous cowboy song	Red
9	Flows through the deepest canyon in North America	Snake
10	Two rivers go into Pittsburgh, this one comes out	Ohio

Rank	Hint	Answer
11	Don't mistake this river for the longer #5	Colorado of Texas
12	Flows from Knoxville, through a state with the same name, to #10	Tennessee
13	Curiously, this river does not even flow through Canada	Canadian
14	Longest river entirely in Texas	Brazos
15	Powell floated this colorful river before #5	Green
16	Longest tributary of #4, shares its name with a fictional cowboy	Pecos
17	Several rivers of this colorful name flow around the country, but this Arkansas-Missouri river is the longest	White
18	Sometimes called the Dakota River, it empties into #1	James
19	Longest river entirely in Alaska, it is not a tributary of #3	Kuskokwim
20	Namesake of a particularly dangerous shortcut on the Santa Fe Trail	Cimarron

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