MtMan-List: red river carts?

[amm944 <amm944@prodigy.net>]

I AM SURE SOME ONE WILL STEP ON ME REAL HARD ON THIS ONE BUT IT HAS BEEN
BUGGING ME SINCE I SEEN THE OX AND THE RED RIVER CART IN THE T&LR THIS
PASS FALL.  WE HAVE BEEN LOOKED DOWN ON IN THE NORTHWEST BECAUSE OF OUR
ENGLISH PERSONA NOT BEING AMERICAN. AMERICAN MT MEN TRAPPED BEAVER FROM
MEXICO TO THE HUDSONS BAY.  I WAS TOLD THAT THE NATIONALS IN SW MONTANA
WAS A RE-ENACTMENT OF A OLD TIME RENDEZVOUS.  WAS THIS OX AND CART OK AT
AN AMERICAN RENDEZVOUS BETWEEN 1820'S AND THE LAST ONE HELD, I WILL SAY
THAT I HAVE NOT READ MUCH IN MY LIFE COMPARED TO SOME OTHERS.  BUT TELL
ME IF I'M WRONG OR NOT DID THEY USE THESE OX AND CARTS BELOW THE 49TH
PARALLEL? I DON'T THINK SO.  THE HBC AND NW CO. DID.  THEY WERE TO SLOW
FOR THE AMERICAN TRADERS,  OXEN WAS FEW AND FAR BETWEEN EVEN IN CANADA.
OXEN WERE GOOD TO EAT AND YOU KNOW HOW US INDIANS LOVE MULES IN THE SW,
I'M SURE MY GREAT GRAND PARENTS WOULD LOVED TO HAVE OX FOR SUPPER.  THEY
COULDN'T RUN FROM TROUBLE VERY FAST.  I THOUGHT THIS WOULD BE ONE
EVERYONE LIKE TO COMMENT ON.  I DON'T WANT TO START A WAR ON THIS, JUST
GOOD HISTORY A LESSONS.  PLAY IT BROTHERS.  LATER JON TOWNS