The Red River ox cart was a large, two-wheeled cart made entirely of wood (usually oak) and pulled by oxen. It was used in the middle of the 19th century in the fur trade and in westward expansion in Canada and the United States.
The Red River Ox Cart Trail extended from the fur-trading posts such as Pembina and St. Joseph in the Red River Valley to St. Paul, Minnesota. Furs were the usual cargo on the trip to St. Paul, and supplies were carried on the trip back to the trading posts. The carts were noted for the creaking sound they made, with their all-wooden axles.
Selkirk, Manitoba has an oversized model of a Red River ox cart.
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