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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Portage Into the Past

Portage Into the Past

Bolz, J. Arnold

Paperback

Series: Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage

Travel WritingGeneral United States HistoryMidwest

Publisher Price: $15.95

ISBN10: 0816609195
ISBN13: 9780816609192
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: Apr 1 1999
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.98 Depth: 8.18
Language: English

A Minnesota canoe enthusiast retraces the routes of the voyageurs.

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.

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