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 ...

He knew his history: that it was previous ox-carters from Winnipeg who had established a log chapel on the banks of the Mississippi ... Red River cart was still rolling down the trail.

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 ...

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 ...

PETER — When some of the very first humans in southern Minnesota wandered the area, they found their way to a shallow, hard-bottom crossing ... via the Red River Ox Cart trail and the Minnesota ...

"I get a very familiar feeling here, working at Crow Wing cause it's on the Mississippi River ... and the Red River Ox Cart Trail, and the River Crossing, and the Battle of 1768 between the ...