Across the Everglades: A Canoe Journey of Exploration

In 1897, Hugh Willoughby and Ed Brewer became the first two Caucasians to cross the Everglades from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic coast. At the time of Willoughby's expedition, very little was known about the Florida Everglades; it was a vast, largely unexplored, and unmapped expanse of extremely inhospitable terrain, known only to the Seminole people and their Calusa predecessors. As Willoughby famously wrote: "It may seem strange, in our days of Arctic and African exploration, for th...