From Voyageurs National Park on FB: Called “Catamaran” by locals, Bert Upton is among the strangest of historical characters on area waters. He lived in a hut built over a dug-out at Squirrel Narrows. Found frozen to death in the 1930s by Kettle Falls pioneer Oliver Knox; Upton was perched lifeless in the snow just a half-mile from his home. Shunning civilization, Upton defined the word hermit. First spotted rowing his crude log raft on Namakan, no one knows how he got there. Upton’s accent implied an English heritage but any personal inquiries brought a stony silence. Some suspected him a man fleeing the law; others saw a bizarre outcast; everyone knew he was peculiar. Just five feet tall and wildly unkempt, Catamaran wore hacked-off pants and walked barefoot with a stick. Winter demanded shoes but no socks, a cast-off Mackinaw, and a trailing cap made from the leg of old underwear. He was oddly religious, and suspicious of being poisoned. Surviving on snared rabbits and fish, he ofte...
I had this book. Thanks for the flashback! If there was a dino book made for kids in the 70s, I had it. Even if it was just a book on reptiles that had 2 pages of dinosaurs in it, I had it.
ReplyDeleteSadly, they are all gone. I wish I had kept them all. As well as my old Turok comics.
ReplyDeleteYour tail? What the fuck?
ReplyDeleteI had this too...recognized all that art. Feathered Dinos may be cool. But they will never be 50s-era look-like-poses-from-a-stop-action-film cool.
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