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Photographer: Paul Fehrenbach
Taken: June 17, 2012
Caption: Photo middle left
Additional Description: “Such a canoe… is altogether one of the most eligible modes of conveyance that can be employed upon the lakes, while in the interior of the northwest – for river navigation, where there are many rapids and portages, nothing that has been contrived to float upon water offers an adequate substitute.” - Henry Schoolcraft, Indian agent and ethnologist, 1821.

“View 18 miles above Prairie du Chien,” painting by Seth Eastman, 1846. Image courtesy of W. Duncan and Nivin MacMillan and Afton Historical Society Press.
Submitted: July 25, 2012, by Paul Fehrenbach of Germantown, Wisconsin.
Database Locator Identification Number: p213266
File Size: 0.345 Megabytes

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