Hawley Shipyard sign on the old warehouse that was used to build and store the Hjemkomst. From the Tom Asp Collection, Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County

Men and Red River carts near Dennis Lake, Manitoba, 1897.

A Red River cart at a Dakota family’s camp, ca. 1870.

Red River carts, 1862–1875. Photograph by Whitney’s Gallery.

Ojibwe with Red River carts near Fort Dufferin, Manitoba, Canada, ca. 1863.

An ox-cart train on a Red River trail, ca. 1860.

Métis drivers with Red River ox carts, probably in Minnesota, 1860. Photograph by Benjamin Franklin Upton.

A camp with Red River carts, ca. 1860.

A man and a Red River cart train, ca. 1859. Photograph by Martin’s Gallery.

An unidentified Métis fur trader of Native American and French ancestry, ca. 1870.