Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 612
elyfor transporting freight over the northern plainsof the Red River country. Some of thesecarts were provided with canvas covers, andwere then used by the early settlers to transporttheir families across the great plains. About1830, the four-wheeled prairie-schooners madetheir appearance. These… … A FORKED LIMB, THE PRIMITIVE SLEDGE OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS.Used for carrying supplies and game. sight, as it slowly undulated across the westernplains. The most rapid transit of those dayswas horseback riding. In places where wagonsor carts had not been introduced, the Indians andthe early…
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