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A Canoe Voyage up the Minnay Sotar: With an account of the lead and Cooper Deposits in Wisconsin; of the Gold Region in the Cherokee County; and Sketches of Popular Manners

Featherstonehaugh, George W.
Originally published in 1847, this second of two volumes of Featherstonhaugh's observations begins with the final four days of the 1835 journey back down the Minnesota River to Fort Snelling. The remainder of the book relates to travels outside the river valley.

Minnesota River: From Ortonville, Big Stone Lake to Fort Snelling, Mississippi River

Ryberg, Clyde N.
Conducted during a five-day canoe trip, this study was designed to gather information related to potential recreational-boating use of the Minnesota River. The narrative section provides daily entries on the author's river experience, including river conditions, fish and wildlife, and river towns. A listing of state parks and camping facilities along the river is included, as are recommendations for increasing recreational river use.

Canoeing with the Cree, reprint ed.

Sevareid, Eric
Originally published in 1935, this book documents a canoe trip up the Minnesota and Red rivers to Hudson Bay taken by journalist Eric Sevareid, with a companion, at age seventeen. Less than a quarter of the book relates to the Minnesota River segment of the trip, but this section does include observations on river conditions (e.g., width, rapids, and sandbars) and wildlife (e.g., carp, sturgeon, and herons).

A Canoe Voyage up the Minnay Sotar: With an account of the lead and Cooper Deposits in Wisconsin; of the Gold Region in the Cherokee County; and Sketches of Popular Manners

Featherstonehaugh, George W.
Originally published in 1847, this first of two volumes presents the observations of an English geologist from his 1835 and 1837 U.S. expeditions. Featherstonhaugh's 1835 journey included a canoe voyage along the length of the Minnesota River from Fort Snelling to Big Stone Lake and back.

Voyage Down the Minnesota

Krohn, Tim
This series of articles and photographs chronicles an eleven-day canoe trip taken by two newspaper reporters down the Minnesota River in the summer of 1998. The authors comment on river conditions and the character of the surrounding lands from the headwaters at Big Stone Lake to the confluence with the Mississippi River in the Twin Cities. Companion stories provide historical information and highlight various citizen efforts to protect the river.

A Survey and Analysis of 24 Rivers in Minnesota: For the Purpose of Recommending Those Which Should be Considered as the Minnesota Recreational River System

Midwest Planning and Research, Inc., and St. Paul Office of U.S.G.S.
This survey of twenty-four Minnesota rivers, including the Minnesota, was conducted to determine physical characteristics and eligibility for inclusion in a state recreational river system. The study recommended that the Minnesota not be included in the system because the degree of development along its banks removed it from wilderness-river consideration and the nature of its flow meant that it is only intermittently canoeable.
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