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Downriver: Chapter 7 Bill Byers the Logger

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07/14/2011

From Cass Lake to Grand Rapids, Mike and I paddled through the land of Paul Bunyon, the legendary logger, on the river that was the highway of the Minnesota timber industry until the 1940s. The world’s largest animated man, according to theme park hype, is this display of Paul Bunyon in Brainerd. Local legends are part of the…

Downriver: Cass Lake and the Ricers Chapter 6

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07/08/2011

The Chippewa Indians have always thought the wild rice beds are a gift from God. Today, wild rice is still important to the Indian people.

Downriver: Chapter 3 Lake Itasca to Bemidgi

06/17/2011

Lake Itasca to Bemidgi We started paddling the next morning from Wanagan through a canoeist’s paradise. The Upper Mississippi is a canoeist’s paradise! (traveltips.usatoday.com photo) The scenery ranged from pine forests that infused the air with a sweet, pine woods smell, to marshes full of cattails with stalks higher than our heads. The wetlands were full of waterfowl. It seemed…

Downriver: A Mississippi River Canoe Voyage, Chapter 2

06/11/2011

Leon’s 1980 end-to-end voyage of the Mississippi River gets started at Lake Itasca, Minnesota.

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10/06/2010

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I still use the 15-foot canoe that carried me all the way to the gulf.

About Leon Pantenburg

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12/19/2009

Leon Pantenburg is a wilderness enthusiast, and doesn’t claim to be a survival expert or expertise as a survivalist. As a newspaperman for four decades, covering search and rescue, sheriffs’ departments and outdoor emergencies, Leon learned many people died unnecessarily or escaped miraculously from outdoor emergency situations when simple, common sense may have changed the outcome. Leon now teaches common sense survival techniques to the average person in order to avert potential disasters.