Yes, that's the only woman I know of who has made a solo trip.

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------ Original Message ------
From: "Loren Ghiglione" <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: 7/10/2019 10:08:00 PM
Subject: Re: canoing/boating down the Mississippi

>For a book I hope to publish next year, I interviewed a woman who made a 2,500-mile, 121-day solo canoe trip from Bemidji, Minn., to Baton Rouge.  Kevin, of the people you know who've made such a trip, is she the only woman to solo canoe that distance? Best, Loren Ghiglione
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>From: Mark Twain Forum <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of tim champlin <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2019 10:01 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: canoing/boating down the Mississippi
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>In 1970 when I was 32, I sailed and drifted from Memphis to Helena, AR, 75 river miles in a 16ft. fiberglass sailboat I built from a kit in my basement. Took 2 1/2 days. Great adventure but scary with all the towboats and revetments. Had only Corps of Engineers navigation charts, sails and canoe paddle. Trip resulted in a 3300-word photo article in a national boating magazine published in 1972. My first professional bit of writing.
>Tim Champlin
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>   July 9, 2019 at 1:22 PM Mac Donnell Rare Books <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>  I've been in and out of the office and meant to reply to the thread on
>>  canoe trips down the Mississippi. I have a question:
>>
>>  Has anyone compiled a list of published accounts by people who have
>>  boated down the Mississippi? I'm not talking about people on steamboats,
>>  but solo excursions, or trips by very small groups of people (say six or
>>  less), in small riverboats (skiffs, canoes, etc.), who traveled down the
>>  entire river.
>>
>>  I only know of seven, the earliest in 1887, two in the 1920s, one in
>>  1938, and the rest more recent.
>>
>>  Kevin
>>  @
>>  Mac Donnell Rare Books
>>  9307 Glenlake Drive
>>  Austin TX 78730
>>  512-345-4139
>>  Member: ABAA, ILAB, BSA
>>
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