---
title: 'The Red River of the North'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Henry Jackson Van Dyke, Jr.'
date: 1880-05-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Travelogues'
- 'Economics, Employment, and Work'
scriptures:
- 'Genesis 1'
- 'Psalms 107'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/van-dyke-1880-the-red-river-of-the-north
---

# The Red River of the North

1880 Harper's travel account of the Red River Valley detailing its geology, settlement, railroads, land sales and the rise of large-scale mechanized wheat farming.

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