When a young lady from a cultured New England background came to La Pointe in the final years of the fur trade, it seemed unlikely that she’d do well on the frontier.  Florantha Sproat didn’t take long to prove doubters mistaken. Astonishingly, Florantha’s time at LaPointe was just the first chapter in a remarkable life that would take her from the Lake Superior country to gold rush California and the peaks of the Sierra Nevada. Along the way she faced hardship and personal tragedy but rose to every challenge with unmatched strength and courage.

Speaker:  Bob Mackreth, Apostle Islands National Park Service Historian