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Uncharted Waters
The Chronicles of an Unlikely Voyager – Book 3
It’s 1805 and André, now 16, desperately wants to paddle with French-Canadian canoe brigades-maybe his last chance. But choosing to tend to his ailing foster parents, he relinquishes his clerk’s position at a fur trade post in the vast Canadian wilderness.
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Nikki Rajala
Nikki Rajala delights in creating fiction and nonfiction alike, and especially enjoys rewriting. But that hasn’t always been so. For years she struggled with “writing phobia.” After she married Bill Vossler, a full-time freelance writer, he encouraged her to find her authentic voice. She and her husband live in Rockville, Minnesota.
Other Books by Nikki Rajala
“Fans of Book 1 of Waters Like the Sky can set forth with André Didier on new adventures. They won’t be disappointed. Treacherous Waters, the second book in the series, is even more nail-bitingly perilous than the first. In addition to being a cracking good adventure story, Treacherous Waters is also a well-researched portrait of life on the Minnesota frontier in early decades of the nineteenth century.”
– Wayne Backman
Nikki Rajala’s Official Voyager’s Blog
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Lopsticks help find the way in uncharted waters
Lopsticks, tall trees lopped of lower branches, were created to honor first-timer guests in an area. They acted as signposts to later fur trade brigades.
The Ho-Chunk in Minnesota—did you know?
The Winnebago (properly called Ho-Chunk) lived in Minnesota for a dozen years, and can be traced partly through the fur trade ledger of A.C Riggs from 1852-53.
Gleanings from a fur trade ledger of 1852-53
A fur trader’s 1852-53 ledger provides fascinating insights into the Winnebago/Ho-Chunk tribespeople who are listed.