Re: 19th century migration to North Dakota
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19th century migration to North Dakota
howard mathieson 3/29/05
Check out http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dillonsweb/...I'mhttp://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dillonsweb/...I'm missing the end of the address but that may be enough of it.Biographies of Allan Wood and Edgar Markell that include accounts of the journey.They travelled by train and ferry in stages from Wales, Ontario through Minneapolis and St. Vincent, Minnesota, then Emerson, Winnipeg and Brandon Manitoba, getting down into ND by wagons with oxen.That was early 1880s.The railroad got into northern ND a bit later, must have made things a bit better although another account I read (can't think where) indicated that the household had to have enough food packed to eat on the train for a week or so, and the men of the household travelled in the livestock car supervising the family cows and horses.