Canoeing with the Cree by Eric Sevareid In two novice paddlers--Eric Sevareid and Walter C. Port--launched a secondhand 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, miles of rivers, lakes, and difficult portages Brand: MN HISTORICAL SOC. If you want a fun and exciting read, you may want to consider this book by Eric Sevareid titled "Canoeing With the Cree." "Getting Our Butts Lost and Being Saved by the Cree" might be a more accurate title. In , immediately following high school graduation, seventeen year old Sevareid and his friend Walter Port, set out from Minneapolis in Cited by: 1. A victim of Red River mud. Contributor: Sevareid, Eric. Date: Image 31 of Canoeing with the Cree, 15 day, but never witnessed a catch. One fisherman, near Shakopee, a town named for the “terrible Shakopee,” a Sioux who massacred many whites in the great uprising of , told us.
Find many great new used options and get the best deals for Canoeing with the Cree by Eric Sevareid (, Perfect, Revised edition,Anniversary) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! The newspaper stories that Eric 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. Reviews and news. Praise for Canoeing with the Cree: "Canoeing with the Cree is an all-time favorite of mine.". Canoeing With the Cree It is and two teenagers graduate from a Minneapolis high school. One of them, Eric Sevareid has no plans for the summer but a classmate; Walter Port talks him into joining him on a canoe trip he had been thinking about for some time.
First published in , Canoeing with the Cree is Sevareid's classic account of this youthful odyssey.?Praise for Canoeing with the Cree?"Canoeing with the Cree is an all-time favorite of mine." —Ann Bancroft, Arctic explorer and co-author of No Horizon Is So Far. This is the narrative of a canoe trip by renowned news commentator Eric Sevareid (). After graduating from Minneapolis High School, he embarked with his classmate, Walt Port, on a journey that would take them up the Minnesota River to Big Stone Lake and from there to the Red River of the North and Lake Winnipeg. Book Overview. "Canoeing with the Cree is an all-time favorite of mine."--Ann Bancroft, Arctic explorer "Imagination and determination are the stuff of this book." --The Beaver In two novice paddlers--Eric Sevareid and Walter C. Port--launched a secondhand foot canvas canoe into the Minnesota River at Fort Snelling for an ambitious summer-long journey from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay.
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