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Red River ox cart (1851), by Frank Blackwell Mayer. The Red River cart is a large two-wheeled cart made entirely of non-metallic materials. Often drawn by oxen, though also by horses or mules, these carts were used throughout most of the 19th century in the fur trade and in westward expansion in Canada and the United States, in the area of the Red River and on the plains west of the Red River ...
The West Plains Trail had originated with Native Americans, and before the ox cart traffic it connected the fur-trading posts of the Columbia Fur Company. [21] In fact, that company introduced the Red River ox cart to haul its furs and goods. It also developed the trails, and by the early 1830s, an expedition from the Selkirk settlement driving ...
Red River ox cart train on the Carlton Trail. The Carlton Trail was the primary land transportation route in the Canadian Northwest for most of the 19th century, connecting Fort Carlton to Edmonton along a line of intermediate places.
The vignette features a westward-bound pioneer and a Red River ox cart. The Red River ox cart was a two-wheeled cart used by fur traders and pioneers, made entirely of wood was often constructed with buffalo sinew due to nail shortages. The Red River Ox Cart Trail extended from fur trading posts at St. Joseph in the Red River Valley to St. Paul ...
Red River ox cart train on the Carlton Trail. The Red River Trails were a network of ox cart routes connecting the Red River Colony (the Selkirk Settlement) and Fort Garry in British North America with the head of navigation on the Mississippi River in the United States.
The Red River ox cart and other fur trade industry items are on display. The museum also explains the frontier forts and the Canada–US border . The second gallery features 1,000 sq ft (100 m 2 ) of temporary exhibit space.
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Oxcart or ox cart can mean: Bullock cart, a cart pulled by oxen; CIA codename for the program to produce the Lockheed A-12 reconnaissance aircraft; See also: Ox-Cart Library; Ox-Cart Man; Red River ox cart