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The Red River carts
1844
Georgetown, Minnesota
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Métis freighters built carts entirely of wood and rawhide, with no metal anywhere, so a broken one could be mended from a tree. Ungreased axles, grease would have collected the prairie dust, made a shriek audible for miles, and trains of several hundred carts hauled buffalo robes and pemmican 450 miles to St. Paul. The trails they cut became the region's first roads.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: historic site
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