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Prairie Trails and Butler's Rough Trek to Carlton Trail
J W Millham recounts the Carlton Trail from Saskatchewan River to Fort Garry with harsh travel conditions across mud bogs sloughs and dust in summer and blizzards and thin ice in winter. Lieutenant-General Butler’s 1870 journey via Fort Ellice Touchwood Hills and Fort Carlton highlights hardships and a deadly smallpox outbreak among Fort Carlton and Fort Pitt inhabitants.
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Carlton
Saskatchewan River
Fort Garry
Plains
Touchwood Hills
Humboldt
Salt Plain
Butler
Fort Ellice
Great River
Fort Pitt
Saskatchewan