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(0)Grace Lee Nute
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
The voyageur's highway was the route from Lake Superior along inland waterways to the Minnesota North Country. Countless people explorers, fur traders, missionaries, map makers, lumberjacks, miners, conservationists, naturalists were drawn to the region's woods and lake shores. Indians, French Canadians, Yankees, Scandinavians, and Slavs all used the rich resources of the land to follow an old way of life or to find a new one.
2) The voyageur
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Description
The Voyageur is the authoritative account of a unique and colorful group of men whose exploits, songs, and customs comprise an enduring legacy. French Canadians who guided and paddled the canoes of explorers and fur traders, the voyageurs were experts at traversing the treacherous rapids and dangerous open waters of the canoe routes from Quebec and Montreal to the regions bordering the Great Lakes and on to the Mackenzie and Columbia Rivers. During...