For centuries, canoes were used as a means of transport (as well as a useful tool for hunting and fishing) in North America, Siberia, and Greenland. The first recorded competitive canoe sprint race ...
Tamara Thomsen / Wisconsin Historical Society Tamara Thomsen was 24 feet underwater when she spotted it: the decaying end of a dugout canoe, a great white oak carved some 1,200 years ago.
The canoes vary in size from 4 to 11 meters long. The smaller ones likely served for fishing. The biggest one, made from oak, is far larger than necessary to cross Lake Bacciano, where the site is ...
Anyone who knows anything about boats—specifically canoes or kayaks—knows the name Old Town. The watercraft brand has been around since the 1800s, when it first started churning out ...
“I read an article in National Geographic Explorer magazine about John Ruskey, founder of Quapaw Canoe Company in Clarksdale,” Burks said. “Ruskey’s company is a guided canoe service on ...
The Mississippi River is a unique creature. It’s an inland sea perpetually on the move. It drains a continent. It gathers other great rivers into its fold and flows forever on. It has countless ...