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canoerone
09/29/2015 08:45AM
 
Two good books for your reading pleasure:
"Our Historic Boundary Waters" by Duane R. Lund" and "The Voyagers Highway" by Grace Lee Nute.
Enjoy!
 
schweady
09/29/2015 09:01AM
 
In no particular order, some history, reference material and storytelling:


A Boundary Waters History: Canoeing Across Time
Stephen Wilburs


Canoe Country
Florence Jaques


Portage Into the Past
J. Arnold Bolz


Troubled Waters: The Fight for the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness
Kevin Proescholdt, Rip Rapson, Miron L. Heinselman


Magic on the Rocks: Canoe Country Pictographs
Michael Furtman


The Boundary Waters Wilderness Ecosystem
Miron L. Heinselman


Quetico Provincial Park: An Illustrated History
Shirley Peruniak


Indian Rock Paintings of the Great Lakes
Ken Kidd, Selwyn Dewdney


Boundary Waters: The Grace of the Wild
Paul Gruchow


A Trapper’s Legacy
Carl Schel


Tales From Jackpine Bob
Bob Cary


Father Water, Mother Woods
Gary Paulsen


Cache Lake Country: Life in the North Woods
John J. Rowlands


A History of Ely and Winton Since 1888
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Canoeing With the Cree
Eric Sevareid


A Place in the Woods
Helen Hoover


Voices From the Rapids: An Underwater Search for Fur Trade Artifacts, 1960-73
Robert C. Wheeler


Trapping the Boundary Waters: A Tenderfoot in Border Country
Charles I. Cook


Gunflint: Reflections on the Trail
Justine Kerfoot


Epic Wanderer: David Thompson & the Mapping of the Canadian West
D’Arcy Jenish


By Water & Rail: A History of Lake County
Hugh E. Bishop


Trapping the Boundary Waters
Charles Ira Cook


Woman of the Boundary Waters
Justine Kerfoot


Betsy & Saganaga
Betsy Powell


Gunflint
John Henrikkson


A Wonderful Country: The Quetico-Superior Stories of Bill Magie
Dave Olesen


Dorothy Molter: The Root Beer Lady
Sarah Guy Levar & Terri Schocke


A History of Incredible Ely
John W. Somrock


Stories of Old Ely & the Lake Country
Mike Hillman


Distant Fires
Scott Anderson


Between the Waters: Tracing the Northwest Trail from Lake Superior to the Mississippi
Larry Luukkonen



 
prizes14
09/27/2015 01:26PM
 
After visiting some pictographs and Warrior Hill in Lac La Croix this past week, it sparked my interest in the history of the BWCA. Does anyone have any recommendations for a good book that tells the history? The history of the indians who lived there and the people from hundreds of years ago whose portages I was now using just amazed me.