Downriver: Cass Lake and the Ricers Chapter 6
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
Lake Itasca to Bemidgi We started paddling the next morning from Wanagan through a canoeist’s paradise. 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…
Downriver: A Mississippi River Canoe Voyage, Chapter 2
Leon’s 1980 end-to-end voyage of the Mississippi River gets started at Lake Itasca, Minnesota.
About Leon Pantenburg
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…
