Ripples from La Prairie Voyageur Canoes
Thursday, October 29, 2026
Rivet of the Rivers: The Extraordinary Life of François Rivet, Voyageur, Mountain Man, and Patriarch of the Pacific Northwest
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Overview This is the true story of François Rivet (1754–1852), a second cousin seven times removed to the author, whose life traced the gr...
Chapter Two: The Missouri Beckons, (Late 1790s–1803)
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The Saint Lawrence had been a wide brown highway with steeples and seigneuries along its banks. The Missouri was something else entirely. ...
Chapter Three: Engagé of the Corps, (1804–Spring 1805)
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St. Louis smelled of river mud, woodsmoke, and ambition that spring of 1804. The Louisiana Purchase was no longer rumor; it was fact. Amer...
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