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The Last Voyageurs: Retracing La Salle’s Journey Across America: Sixteen Teenagers on the Adventure of a Lifetime

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In 1976, The united states’s bicentennial, 24 young men set out to re-create French explorer La Salle’s voyage down all the length of the Mississippi River, abandoning their modern identities so as to live like the voyageurs of the 1600s.

Reid Lewis never wanted to be an peculiar French teacher. With the approach of the American Bicentennial, he determined to put his knowledge of French language and history to use in recreating the voyage of René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, the first European to shuttle from Montreal to the end of the Mississippi River. Lewis’ crew of modern voyageurs used to be comprised of 16 high school students and 6 teachers who learned to sew their own 17th-century clothing, paddle handmade canoes, and construct black powder rifles.

Together they set off on an eight-month, 3,300-mile expedition across the major waterways of North The united states. They fought strong currents on the St. Lawrence, paddled through storms on the Great Lakes, and walked over 500 miles across the frozen Midwest right through one of the most coldest winters of the 20th century, all even as putting on performances about the history of French explorers for communities along their route. The crew had to overcome disagreements, a crisis of leadership, and near-death experiences before coming to the end of their journey. The Last Voyageurs tells the story of this American odyssey, where a group of young men discovered themselves by pretending to be French explorers. 16 pages of color photographs

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