(By Jack Blackwell) Arriving on the steamship America at the Lake Superior village of Hovland in 1914, 14-year-old Alec Boostrom embarked upon a life of wilderness adventure. From setting boundary markers along the Canadian border to outlaw beaver trapping, he found ways to make a living from the land. After his father died, seventeen-year-old Jack Blackwell joined his grandfather, Alec Boostrom, on his trapline in northern Minnesota's canoe country wilderness. Blackwell tells his grandfather's story and illuminates a way of life in a remote northern wilderness. Softcover 140 pages.