Canoe

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CANOE First Day of Issue: October 22, 1991 First Issue Location: Secaucus, New Jersey Perhaps no other watercraft is as romantic as the canoe. Canoeing evokes images of a time long past: Indians paddling birch bark canoes on quiet, pristine rivers in the Northeast; hardy European explorers prying into the far corners of the New World; rugged trappers exploring the wonders of Canada and Alaska. Even today, the canoe can take modern-day adventurers into some of the most remote and spectacular reaches of the continent. Places such as the Missouri River Breaks in Montana, the Niobrara River in Nebraska and the Boundary Waters in Minnesota attract thousands of “explorers" every year — all of whom experience the nostalgia and peacefulness of the canoe. Birch-bark and dugout canoes are primarily boats of the past — today's canoes made from such high- tech materials as fiberglass, special plastics and alumi- num— but the art of canoeing is much the same. The U.S. Postal Service coil stamp on this Maximum Card honors the age-old canoe in one of its many forms. No. 91-97 ©1991 The Maximum Card Collection A division of Unicover Corporation • Cheyenne, WY 82008-0007 ® Original painting for the Maximum Card by Basil Smith