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Animated by the exchange, Lorinser and I searched the Sevareid Library for a copy of Canoeing with the Cree. According to the card catalog, the book should have been shelved and available. But apparently I wasn’t the only one interested in this audacious trip.

We queried a librarian, who smiled unexpectedly. She called the book “a regional classic” and “Minnesota’s version of Huck Finn,” before apologizing sheepishly for the missing volume. “Some people forget to sign it out,” she explained, and then suggested that I check the university bookstore.

I hurried across campus and found a short stack of tan paperbacks on the “Minnesota Interest” table, surrounded by books on Vikings football greats, classic hot dish recipes, and the Twin Cities’ best fishing holes. The cover featured a photograph of a strapping Sevareid wearing baggy pants tucked into knee-high boots and a button-up khaki shirt, posing jauntily with hands on his hips. He could have passed for a Mountie, and he appeared to be at least 30 years old.