What is a cedar-strip canoe, anyway? The basic idea behind a cedar-strip canoe is to make a hull of narrow wood strips, each one glued to the next with ordinary carpenter’s glue, and then cover the ...

Trent Preszler says his hardscrabble life growing up on a cattle ranch in Faith, South Dakota was made tougher because of his relationship with his father, Leon, a former rodeo champion and Vietnam ...

GRAND FORKS - Larry Gadaire was paddling his homemade cedar strip canoe on Lake Renwick near Cavalier, N.D., one day about 25 years ago when he saw someone cruising the lake in a kayak. A cabinet ...

The Historic Indian Agency House, 1490 Agency House Road in Portage, is building a canoe with old techniques used by Native Americans this summer with first-hand evidence. Once a month, Adam Novey ...

Students at Mercy Montessori School in Cincinnati handcrafted a 15-foot canoe, learning how to steam bend, tie knots and secure the boat in the process.Seventh and eighth-graders spent a week building ...

BIGFORK, Minn. - In his dilapidated workshop steeped in cedar sawdust and family history, Ray Boessel frets over his role in keeping a centuries-old craft alive. The craft is building birchbark canoes ...