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Nile Kinnick correspondence, 1935-1938
1938-07: Page 05
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3 flap wildly into flight. Often as we followed a lengthy creek or a river a large, lumbering heron would flap along ahead of us to a new resting place, only to take flight and repeat the performance as we moved up again. Now and then we would see an osprey, occasionally with a fish in its grasp. From Nixon Creek we hit the Manitowish R. on up to Fishtrap Lake, across High Lake and then the portage to Devils Lake. They call it the High Devil Portage and it truly is. The terrain was once a beautiful forest, but in recent years it had been entirely cut over and is
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3 flap wildly into flight. Often as we followed a lengthy creek or a river a large, lumbering heron would flap along ahead of us to a new resting place, only to take flight and repeat the performance as we moved up again. Now and then we would see an osprey, occasionally with a fish in its grasp. From Nixon Creek we hit the Manitowish R. on up to Fishtrap Lake, across High Lake and then the portage to Devils Lake. They call it the High Devil Portage and it truly is. The terrain was once a beautiful forest, but in recent years it had been entirely cut over and is
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