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Grand Portage, the eight-and-a-half-mile carry

Grand Portage, Minnesota · 1731

Grand Portage, the eight-and-a-half-mile carry

The Pigeon River is unnavigable at its mouth, so everything moving between Lake Superior and the interior went over this trail on men's backs, two ninety-pound packs at a time, at a trot.

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