"The Settlers' Grand Difficulty": Haying in the Economy of the Red River Settlement
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Barry Kaye
Prairie Forum, vol. 9, no. 1, Spring, 1984, pp. 1-11
Description
Looks at the repeated crop failures at Red River that compelled settlers to use wild hay from the plains, as well as support the colony by hunting, fishing, and fowling.