Local documentarian tells story of oxcart trading route through Minnesota Dan Hegstad’s film, “The Mètis and the Oxcarts of the Red River,” premiered on PBS in March.

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West of Chicago, the Danish believers headed north into Wisconsin. Nilsson’s Swedes, after travel by canal boat, sailing ship, railroad cattle car, ox cart and on foot, arrived in Rock Island, where ...

Yet Ike chose to be hostage, and Kentuck, without an hour’s rest, immediately guided the oxcart day and night 150 miles to his starving friends, arriving in the middle of the night.

Before the railroad came to town the Ox Cart Trail crossed the Sauk River at Waite's Crossing. Henry Waite was a lawyer from Chicago who bought more than 600 acres in Central Minnesota.