St. Vincent Memories

 John Boucher - Back row, on left (1855)  Provision was made in the ninth article of the treaty of October 2, 1863 (aka Old Crossing ...

The beginning of the trip - Taking off from Pembina, to sell a year's worth of furs... The end of the trip - Arriving at St. Paul, ...

The oxcart trail on the open prairie. Photo courtesy Wadena County Historical Society   History of the Woods Branch of the Red River Trail...

A historic postcard touts Pembina's attractions.  [Photo Credit: State Historical Society of North Dakota/Digital Horizons] Pembina, N....

Norman Kittson , as painted by Kit Leffler ... The Artist Statement for the Double Back: Tracing Histories of the Red River Ox Cart Trail...

Hugh O'Lone, 1870 Kootenai Brown,1895 J ohn George "Kootenai" Brown's reference to “Bob O'Lone” in his memoir...

Louis Edgar Rogers, aka Jim Barry, was born in St. Vincent, Minnesota. J im Barry was a pugilist...and a mystery. His real name was L...

Metis Rider; note the beaded saddle blanket... ...The following month, the annual horse race known as the Dufferin races, was held in E...

A lost family portrait is found! R ecently, Ed Merck posted an intriguing entry on the Kittson County Historical Society website: ...

This poster from 2010 represents what you can typically see at the festival! [Click to enlarge...] I had the opportunity to share one o...

A n early Christmas Eve in Pembina/St. Vincent tells how when Lord Selkirk 's settlers had an insufficient harvest that fall, and c...

T his appeared on the editorial pages of the Winnipeg Free Press recently... In your editorial Radicals always in our midst (March 16), I...

Photo of Riel (1878) I t was from the border town of St. Vincent , Minnesota, that on December 26, 1878, Riel gazed longingly at his M...

A pass was regularly made out for a Non-Com and file to go to Pembina , Dakota, for the mail. Passes were also granted at intervals to exc...

St. Nicholas Ukrainian Church (Caribou, Kittson County, Minnesota) Let me introduce you to someone from my hometown area - eastern Kitt...

Found via Google Books, aka "the researcher's friend" The following excerpt highlights a pharmacological discovery by uni...

I have written about Jean Baptiste Wilkie (1803-1886) before, but only in his role as leader of the great annual Pembina buffalo hunts. B...