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The author narrates a 600-mile series of canoe voyages along three Midwestern rivers, combining practical guidance on boats and portages with descriptive scenes of river landscapes, small towns, and shore communities. Episodes record daily travel, weather, storms, locks, and occasional forced stays, while chronicling local history and encounters with indigenous peoples and settlers; chapters alternate route-focused narrative and letterlike reports. Emphasis falls on observing natural scenery from the water, the simplicity of camp life, and the pleasures of slow travel, with measurements of distances and notes useful for future canoeists.
[1] See Mrs. Kinzie's "Wau-Bun" for a description of the difficulties of travel in "the early day," via Dixon's Ferry.
[2] Ten dollars per boat, and fifty cents per 100 lbs. of goods.
[3] Described in Mrs. Kinzie's "Wau-Bun," which gives many interesting reminiscences of life at the old post.
[4] Butterfield's "Discovery of the Northwest" (Cincinnati, 1861).
[5] See Mrs. Kinzie's "Wau-Bun" for reminiscences of Four Legs.
[6] Wis. Hist. Colls., vol. ii. p. 425.