John Henricksson

John Henricksson has written about the natural and cultural history of northern Minnesota for over fifty years in newspapers, magazines, and books. He is also a contributor to radio, television, and film programming on the subject.

Henricksson has spent the last thirty-five summers living in a cabin on Gunflint Lake and absorbing the stories of of the Gunflint Trail region and its people. His book on the wildlife of the Gunflint Trail region, A Wild Neighborhood, won the Minnesota Book Award for nature writing.

Henricksson's latest book, Over the Portage Into History, is a unique book of profiles of eight outstanding but virtually anonymous adventures, voyageurs, and explorers who canoed the million and half square mile wilderness waters of the Hudson Bay drainage, which included the Superior National Forest and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness of Minnesota and Ontario.