> On Jan 3, 2017, at 10:28 AM, Stanley Halpin <[email protected]> > wrote: > > http://www.mnhs.org/places/nationalregister/shipwrecks/mpdf/inship.php > > Don’t know if this helps or not… > > I assume that either the Egyptians or Vikings wandered through but I have no > verification of that… > > stan >
From the above link: > When the American explorer Zebulon Pike traveled to the Mississippi > Headwaters in 1805, he began his journey from St. Louis in a 70-foot > keelboat. The boat was sailed, rowed, and poled upstream to Prairie du Chien > where Pike exchanged it for two smaller bateaux. The bateaux were later > portaged around St. Anthony Falls and taken nearly to Little Falls in central > Minnesota. While there, Pike fashioned dugout canoes from pine trees, but > dallied so long in erecting a fort that he was later forced to abandon his > water craft and complete his northerly expedition by walking on the ice. > stan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
