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- Portage Into The Past
- Book
- 1999
- Published by: University of Minnesota Press
- Series: Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage
summary
The wilderness of the Boundary Waters is as rich in history as it is in natural beauty. Almost three hundred years ago, French Canadian voyageurs traveled through this area, which straddles the border of the United States and Canada, paddling birch-bark canoes along the St. Lawrence-Superior route to northwestern Canada. In this work of travel and adventure, Bolz recounts a journey he took in 1958, retracing the voyageurs’ route from Grand Portage on Lake Superior through the Quetico-Superior country to Rainy Lake. His canoe and paddle served as a time machine as he re-created a trip first taken centuries ago.
Beautifully illustrated by Francis Lee Jaques, Portage into the Past draws from the journals and maps of the early explorers of the region. Today’s adventurers of the north country will treasure this classic, an ideal guidebook to the region’s remarkable past.
Table of Contents
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- Table of Contents
- pp. vii-viii
- October 8. Cypress Lake to Basswood Lake
- pp. 97-106
- October 9. Basswood Lake to Crooked Lake
- pp. 107-120
- October 10. Crooked Lake to Lac La Croix 121
- pp. 121-129
- Note of appreciation
- pp. 169-172
- For those who want to learn more
- pp. 173-174
Additional Information
ISBN
9780816681488
Related ISBN(s)
9780816609192
MARC Record
OCLC
685202975
Pages
192
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No