Hard Rivers: The Untold Saga of La Salle: Expedition II

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In Hard Rivers, creator Craig P. Howard recounts the harrowing journey of La Salle: Expedition II, a reenactment of the 1681–82 voyage of La Salle from Montreal to the Gulf of Mexico. The crew, made from sixteen teenage boys and seven adults led by one charismatic teacher, launched their canoes on August 11, 1976, and arrived on the Gulf on April 9, 1977—3,300 miles later. Lake Michigan and Midwest rivers froze solid within the historic cold, forcing the kids to march 500 miles, first from Chicago to St. Joseph, Michigan after which across Indiana and Illinois. Regardless of temperatures of twenty-seven below and wind chills of seventy-eight below, near fatalities out of doors Green Bay, and a truck twist of fate near Hebron, Indiana that hospitalized four, they achieved something that had never been done before and is absolutely not done again.

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