02171cam a2200409 i 4500 330798806 TxAuBib 20160602120000.0 150622s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781605989761 1605989762 YDXCP eng rda YDXCP OCLCQ CLE UOK SKYRV TxAuBib rda Boissoneault, Lorraine. The last voyageurs : retracing La Salle's journey across America : sixteen teenagers on the adventure of a lifetime / Lorraine Boissoneault. First Pegasus Books edition. New York : Pegasus Books, 2016. New York : Pegasus Books, 2016. ©2016. xii, 275 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations and photographs, map ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-274). Make no little plans -- Reconstructing the past -- The life of a voyageur -- The bonds of brotherhood -- Stuck between two worlds -- No trails but the waterways themselves -- Trapped at death's door -- "The beginning of our hardships" -- The most dangerous product the intellect has concocted -- Parallel voyages -- The green buoy. In 1976, America's bicentennial, 24 young men set out to re-create French explorer La Salle's voyage down the entire length of the Mississippi River, abandoning their modern identities in order to live like the voyageurs of the 1600s. 20160614. La Salle, Robert Cavelier sieur de 1643-1687 Travel North America. Historical reenactments Mississippi River Valley. Historical reenactments Canada. Mississippi River Valley Discovery and exploration. Canada History To 1763 (New France.) United States Centennial celebrations, etc.