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Buffalo-skin lodge and Red
River carts
1873, from a photograph by
Charles Horetzky
This engraving of a survey camp on the elbow of the
Saskatchewan River is based on one of Horetzky's photographs.
The engraving was published in Ocean to Ocean
(1873), George Grant's account of the overland journey
to the Pacific via the proposed route of the transcontinental
railway. The expedition was organized by Sandford Fleming,
the chief engineer of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
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