A Grand Portage Rendezvous
July 10th 2018 Grand Portage National Monument, Grand Portage, Minnesota
It is hard to imagine that the European demand for hats made of beaver skin would be responsible for opening up an entire continent. But that is pretty much what happened up here. I was aware of the general history that French trappers had a great deal to do with exploring the interior, but I wasn’t aware of some of the more interesting
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