Painting by Charles M. Russell On a warm July day in 1874, 275 men, 310 horses, 143 oxen and 187 carts and wagons left Fort Dufferin, Manitoba. Each man was dressed in a bright red uniform with polished boots. Optimism was high, as the two-kilometre...
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