On this date in Minnesota History: June 17

June 17, 1930¹ – When he was 17 years old, Eric Sevareid and his friend Walter Porter, 19, “embarked on an expedition sponsored by the Minneapolis Star, from Minneapolis to York Factory on Hudson Bay. They canoed up the Minnesota River and its tributary, the Little Minnesota River to Browns Valley, Minn., portaged to Lake Traverse and descended the Bois des Sioux River to the Red River of the North, which led to Lake Winnipeg, then went down the Nelson River, Gods River, and Hayes River to Hudson Bay, a trip of 2,250 miles (3,620 km).  Sevareid's book, Canoeing with the Cree, was the result of this canoe trip. The book is still in print.”²

A CBS news journalist from 1939 to 1977, Sevareid graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1935. The University of Minnesota School of Journalism & Mass Communication library is named after him.<sup>3

1</sup>http://books.google.com/books?id=vDKdOi_RLrgC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

²http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Sevareid

³http://sjmc.umn.edu/about/sevareidlibrary.html

Journalist Eric Sevareid
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