Salmon River (Idaho) Salmon River (Idaho) The Salmon River is located in Idaho in the northwestern United States. The Salmon is also known as "The River of No Return". It flows for through central Idaho, draining a rugged, thinly populated watershed of and dropping more than between its headwaters, near Galena Summit above the Sawtooth Valley in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area, and its confluence with the Snake River. Measured at White Bird, its average discharge is per second. It is one of the largest rivers in the continental United States without a single dam on its mainstem. Cities located along the Salmon
Wings of Chance Canadian producer Larry Matanski had been aware of the scenic beauty of Alberta's national parks as the setting for "River of No Return" (1954), starring Robert Mitchum and Marilyn Monroe. In adapting the 1957 short story "Kirby's Gander" by John Patrick Gillese (later renamed "Wings of Chance") that was set in the Alberta bush, he thought he would be able to attract interest from a Hollywood production company. Re-written as "Wings of Chance", the production was extremely "low-budget", shot for $200,000 with one camera and a small production crew. Despite the meagre production values, the scenery of Alberta's national parks