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Canoes: A Natural History in North America

Mark Neuzil and Norman Sims 2016
This is the story of the canoe, that singular American artifact so little changed over time. Featured here are canoes old and new, from birch bark to dugout to carbon fiber; the people who made them; and the adventures they shared. With features of technology, industry, art, and survival, the canoe carries us deep into the natural and cultural history of North America.

Follow author Mark Neuzil on Twitter: @mrneuzil

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A watercolor painting of two figures paddling through rapids.

Shooting the Rapids

From Chapter 8: Canoe Tripping

Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910). Shooting the Rapids, 1902. Watercolor over graphite on off-white, thick, moderately textured wove paper with watermark, 13 15/16 × 21 13/16 in. (35.4 × 55.4 cm).

Wood-and-canvas canoes on a stop for provisions before a wilderness expedition prior to 1920.

Stopping for Provisions

From Chapter 8: Canoe Tripping

Wood-and-canvas canoes on a stop for provisions before a wilderness expedition prior to 1920.

Typical canoe camping equipment illustrated in the 1915 book, Canoeing and Camping, by James A. Cruikshank.

Canoe Camping Equipment

From Chapter 8: Canoe Tripping

Typical canoe camping equipment illustrated in the 1915 book, Canoeing and Camping, by James A. Cruikshank.

A black-and-white portrait of Florence Page Jaques.

Florence Page Jaques

From Chapter 8: Canoe Tripping

Florence Page Jaques wrote Canoe Country (1945) and Snowshoe Country (1944), both illustrated by her husband Francis.

Joe Mell, a Passamaquoddy Indian, sleeps under his canoe on Duck Lake, Maine, ca. 1895.

Joe Mell

From Chapter 8: Canoe Tripping

Joe Mell, a Passamaquoddy Indian, sleeps under his canoe on Duck Lake, Maine, ca. 1895.

A painting of a group of voyageurs at camp in the morning.

Voyageurs at Dawn

From Chapter 8: Canoe Tripping

Frances Anne Hopkins, Voyageurs at Dawn, 1871. Oil on canvas, 73.7 x 151.1 cm.

A map of Alexander Mackenzie’s routes from Montreal to Fort Chipewyan and then onward to the Arctic Ocean in 1789 and to the Pacific Ocean in 1793. Published by Mackenzie in 1801.

Alexander Mackenzie's Routes

From Chapter 8: Canoe Tripping

A map of Alexander Mackenzie’s routes from Montreal to Fort Chipewyan and then onward to the Arctic Ocean in 1789 and to the Pacific Ocean in 1793. Published by Mackenzie in 1801.

A painting of a very large canoe full of voyageurs traveling through rapids.

Shooting the Rapids

From Chapter 8: Canoe Tripping

Frances Anne Hopkins, Shooting the Rapids, 1879. Oil on canvas, 91.4 x 152.4 cm.

In 1967, these paddlers reenacted part of the 1793 Mackenzie Expedition, paddling from Ft. St. John, British Columbia, to Expo ’67 in Montreal, Quebec.

Mackenzie Expedition Reenactment

From Chapter 8: Canoe Tripping

In 1967, these paddlers reenacted part of the 1793 Mackenzie Expedition, paddling from Ft. St. John, British Columbia, to Expo ’67 in Montreal, Quebec.

Portrait of Henry David Thoreau in 1854 by Samuel Worcester Rouse. Thoreau was 39 years old in this portrait.

Henry David Thoreau

From Chapter 8: Canoe Tripping

Samuel Worcester Rouse, Portrait of Henry David Thoreau, 1854. Thoreau was thirty-nine years old at the time of this drawing.

A black-and-white photograph of Pockwockamus Falls on the West Branch of the Penobscot River, 1915.

Pockwockamus Falls

From Chapter 8: Canoe Tripping

Thoreau’s canoe route through Maine included Pockwockamus Falls on the West Branch of the Penobscot River, seen here in a 1915 photograph by Burt Call.

Edwin Tappan Adney in the Yukon, 1897.

Edwin Tappan Adney

From Chapter 8: Canoe Tripping

Edwin Tappan Adney in the Yukon, 1897.

Tappan Adney’s map of the eastern woodlands shows western migrations of Native peoples and the diffusion of their canoe types.

Edwin Tappan Adney's Map

From Chapter 8: Canoe Tripping

Edwin Tappan Adney’s map of the eastern woodlands shows western migrations of Native peoples and the diffusion of their canoe types.

An illustration of a moose.

Edwin Tappan Adney Illustration

From Chapter 8: Canoe Tripping

Edwin Tappan Adney’s sketch of a moose appeared alongside an 1893 article in Our Animal Friends, a publication of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

A black-and-white photo of Sevareid and Port getting into a canoe from a wooden pier.

Eric Sevareid and Walter Port

From Chapter 8: Canoe Tripping

In June 1930, Eric Sevareid (left) and Walter Port started their canoe journey from Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and paddled 2,250 miles to Hudson Bay.

Eric Sevareid’s nickel-plated, cased magnetic compass that guided the 1930 canoe trip to Hudson Bay.

Eric Sevareid's Compass

From Chapter 8: Canoe Tripping

Eric Sevareid’s nickel-plated, cased magnetic compass that guided the 1930 canoe trip to Hudson Bay.

John McPhee poling a canoe with his daughters Jenny (in the bow) and Martha (in the middle) in Ontario in 1978.

John McPhee

From Chapter 8: Canoe Tripping

John McPhee poling a canoe with his daughters Jenny (in the bow) and Martha (in the middle) in Ontario in 1978.

Panoramic view of the Salmon River headwaters in the Kobuk Valley National Park in Alaska.

Salmon River

From Chapter 8: Canoe Tripping

John McPhee’s 1975 canoe trip to Alaska’s Salmon River was featured in his book, Coming Into the Country. The river’s headwaters pass through Kobuk Valley National Park.

A black and white photograph of three men lounging beneath a makeshift canvas tent on the shore with the river flowing behind them. Their birch-bark canoe sits beside them propped up agains a pine tree

Views of Dalles of the St. Louis River

From Chapter 8: Canoe Tripping

T. W. Ingersoll, Views of Dalles of the St. Louis River, ca 1890, photograph.

An color illustrated book cover depicts a small group of young girls in canoes paddling up a river surrounded by rocks and trees. The girls wear matching sporting outfits. Red text on the cover reads, "The Camp Fire Girls at Camp Keewaydin. Hildegard G. Frey."

The Camp Fire Girls at Camp Keewaydin

From Chapter 8: Canoe Tripping

Cover of The Camp Fire Girls at Camp Keewaydin by Hildegard G. Frey.

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