Red River Ox Cart at the Grant County Museum in Elbow Lake, Minnesota
It’s difficult to imagine that simple wooden carts pulled by oxen could settle a territory but they did. The Red River ox carts brought goods from Canadian settlements and the northern plains down a long trail to pioneer St. Paul, Minnesota. The carts, filled with supplies and furs, stretched across the prairies in long […]
Lauraine Snelling at the Minot Hostfest
Reading Lauraine Snelling’s Red River of the North Series back in the 1990s gave me permission to celebrate my Scandinavian roots. I remember the euphoric feeling I experienced when I read about her characters’ immigration to America and their subsequent struggle to get established in Minnesota and North Dakota. Her stories reminded me of […]