From here expeditions set out to the unexplored plains of the Northwest, and trains of settlers left by oxcart and covered wagons to seek homes on the prairie beyond.
Nearby stands a Red River oxcart whose wooden wheels once creaked over the old river trail before the days of railroads and highways.
Red River Oxcart Trail (see Tour 1) which crossed the little hill on which the clubhouse stands.
In its early years Grand Forks was a typical river town, developing into an important station for the heavy river and oxcart traffic on the St. Paul-Fort Garry trail.
Moreover, homesteading in the northern part of the Territory was complicated by the fact that the nearest land office was at Vermilion, 400 miles away, a long and perilous trip in the day of the oxcart and dogsled.
The factors "had much adoe with Tonomon Sama, Semidono, Taccamondono, and others, to give us their bills .
Tayamon Dono envited us to dyner, I meane all the English, he being our master carpenter, and our work all most ended.
Warn't nobody embalmed dem days and de white folkses wuz buried in a graveyard on de farm same as de Niggers wuz, and de same oxcart took 'em all to de graveyard.
Den dey put de coffin on de oxcart and carried it to de graveyard whar dey jus' had a burial dat day.
Marster Terrell gave my mammy an pappy a oxcart an mule an a bushel of meal.
Pappy used to drive a oxcart and, when he was bad off sick and out of his haid, he hollered out: 'Scotch dat wheel!
Jose can take two burros along to carry the supplies," he added, "and he won't need the oxcart at all.
Or are we going to ride in that oxcart over there?
I think we'll have to leave our car at the village and go the rest of the way to La Esperanza by oxcart or horses," said Peggy.
By the time they had the cots made up, the Mexicans had finished unloading and were starting off leisurely down the trail behind the oxcart and burros.
Her job was drivin' de oxcart to haul in wood from de new grounds and to take wheat and corn to mill and fetch back good old home-made flour and meal.
This was done by collecting all the rags she could find and then carrying them to town in an oxcart to sell them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oxcart" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
