By God they made it | The 50th Anniversary of a canoe expedition of the Ohio River from Pittsburg, PA to Friendship, Indiana

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The following is an actual ac­count of the three men, Ed Keney, Tom Grant, and Gordon Byrd who set out from Pittsburg, Pa., in an eighteen-foot canoe and pad­dled 525 miles in 15 days, to the Walter Cline Range at Friendship, Ind. A feat of endurance, determ­ination, hardship, and not ex­cluding the heartbreak loss of equipment. As you follow along with these men, part in the narrative, part . in actual daily entries from their diary, you will see they still have the fiber of the frontiersmen who opened this country.

This story is from 50 years ago nearly to the day. Expedition participant Tom Grant reached out to share his story with us. This episode features the telling of the tell by Tom Grant as well as reciting of the original article from 1970.

Listen to the whole story today on the Muzzle Blasts Podcast from the National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association.

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