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   [7]A Red River cart train on the Carlton Trail 
   A Red River cart train on the Carlton Trail

   The Red River ox cart was a large, two-wheeled [8]cart drawn by
   [9]oxen and made entirely of [10]wood, usually [11]oak. Because
   [12]nails were unavailable or very expensive in the early west, these
   carts were held together with animal [13]sinew, most usually obtained
   from [14]buffalo. The carts were used throughout most of the 19th
   century in the [15]fur trade and in westward expansion in [16]Canada
   and the [17]United States, in the area of the [18]Red River of the
   North.

   The [19]Red River Trails on which the carts were used extended from
   the [20]Red River Colony via fur-[21]trading posts such as [22]Pembina
   and [23]St. Joseph in the [24]Red River Valley to [25]Mendota and
   [26]St. Paul, Minnesota. Furs were the usual cargo on the trip to St.
   Paul, and trade goods and supplies were carried on the trip back to
   the colony. The carts were noted for the creaking sound they made,
   with their all-wooden axles.^[27][1]

   The [28]Carlton Trail was also an important route for the carts,
   running from the Red River Colony in northwest to [29]Fort Carlton and
   [30]Fort Edmonton in present day [31]Saskatchewan and [32]Alberta,
   with minor offshoots like the [33]Fort a la Corne Trail. The carts
   were the primary conveyance in the Canadian west from early settlement
   until the coming of the [34]Canadian Pacific Railway toward the end of
   the century.

   Invented and developed by the [35]Métis and [36]Anglo-Metis peoples,
   it is sometimes used today as a symbol of Metis nationalism.

   [37]Selkirk, Manitoba, has an oversized model of a Red River ox cart,
   and models may also be found at [38]St. Louis, [39]Duck Lake and
   [40]Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. The [41]Clay County, Minnesota
   Historical Society has a full-scale replica cart.^[42][2]

[[43]edit] References

[[44]edit] Notes

    1. [45]^ [46]Red River Cart Squeak!. Clay County Historical Society
       ([47]2006-[48]06-26). Retrieved on [49]2009-[50]06-17.
    2. [51]^ Peihl, Mark (2001). [52]A Few Thoughts About Red River
       Carts. Clay County Historical Society. Retrieved on
       [53]2009-[54]06-17.

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