Product Description
by John Evert (Author), Dick Henke (Author), Jerry Pankow (Author)
Three young men. Two cedar canoes. Two untamed rivers. A journey over 2000 miles.No one had done it. Could they? Follow Johnny, Dick, and Jerry from Pueblo, Colorado to New Orleans, Louisiana as they face flood and drought, snakes and sunburn, snags and sawyers on their epic trip down the Arkansas and Mississippi Rivers to New Orleans in 1949. Based on diary entries, letters, and newspaper articles from 1949, theirs is a story of the greatest generation in the years after the war, when the America was full of promise and nothing seemed impossible.
Author Biography
Terri Karsten lives alongside the upper Mississippi River and enjoys dipping her own paddle in the water whenever she can.
Number of Pages: 136
Dimensions: 0.29 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN
Publication Date: October 21, 2012
