For the next few months, visual artist Kit Leffler will be embarking on an artistic treasure hunt to trace the path of the Red River ox-cart trails that ... tavern on the Mississippi River north ...

The Métis and the Red River Ox Carts ... Mississippi River. And what makes them interesting to me as a historian of the frontier and of movement on the frontier is that when you think about ...

The Red River Ox Cart trails carved and snaked their way across northwestern Minnesota. In the mid-1800s, those dirt trails became a lifeline for settlers. Terry Doerksen, of Winnipeg, travels ...

PILLAGER -- Settlers using wooden ox carts -- made of two not completely ... Fur traders would follow the trail northwest up the Mississippi River to the mouth of the Crow Wing River and through ...