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In 1930 two novice paddlers—Eric Sevareid and Walter C. Port—launched a secondhand 18-foot canvas canoe into the Minnesota River at Fort Snelling for an ambitious summer-long journey from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay. Without benefit of radio, motor, or good maps, the teenagers made their way over 2,250 miles of rivers, lakes, and difficult portages. Nearly four months later, after shooting hundreds of sets of rapids and surviving exceedingly bad conditions and even worse advice, the ragged, hungry adventurers arrived in York Factory on Hudson Bay—with winter freeze-up on their heels. First published in 1935, Canoeing with the Cree is Sevareid's classic account of this youthful odyssey. The newspaper stories that Sevareid wrote on this trip launched his distinguished journalism career, which included more than a decade as a television correspondent and commentator on the CBS Evening News.

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  1. Cover
  2. pp. -1
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  1. Front Matter
  2. pp. i-v
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  1. FOREWORD
  2. pp. ix-xiv
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  1. FOREWORD TO THE ORIGINAL EDITION
  2. pp. xv-xvi
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  1. CONTENTS
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  1. ILLUSTRATIONS
  2. pp. xix-xxii
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  1. CHAPTER I. WE'RE OFF!
  2. pp. 1-9
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  1. CHAPTER II. THE NEW LIFE
  2. pp. 10-25
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  1. CHAPTER III. SNAKES!
  2. pp. 26-40
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  1. CHAPTER IV. TRAGEDY - ALMOST
  2. pp. 41-52
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  1. CHAPTER V. RED RIVER MUD
  2. pp. 53-63
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  1. CHAPTER VI. READY FOR THE PLUNGE
  2. pp. 64-77
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  1. CHAPTER VII. INTO THE LAND OF THE CREE
  2. pp. 78-90
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  1. CHAPTER VIII. THE ROYAL NORTHWEST MOUNTED
  2. p. 91
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  1. CHAPTER IX. HUMILIATION OF THE "SANS SOUCI"
  2. pp. 104-113
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  1. CHAPTER X. "THE DIE IS CAST"
  2. pp. 114-127
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  1. CHAPTER XI. CANOEING WITH THE CREE
  2. pp. 128-140
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  1. CHAPTER XII. GOD'S COUNTRY
  2. pp. 141-152
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  1. CHAPTER XIII. THE GREAT TEST
  2. pp. 153-171
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  1. CHAPTER XIV. FICTION — AND PINEAPPLE
  2. pp. 172-184
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  1. CHAPTER XV. HALF-BREEDS AND MUSKEG
  2. pp. 185-197
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  1. CHAPTER XVI. END OF THE TRAIL
  2. pp. 198-201
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  1. INDEX
  2. pp. 202-208
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  1. Image Plates
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