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.

Antoine Blanc Gingras, Métis fur trader and member of the Minnesota Territorial Legislature, ca. 1855.

Two men, probably Métis, preparing a Red River cart train at Pembina, 1856.