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The Scotch Grove Trail to Iowa’s Jones County
The article traces Scotch settlers from Sutherlandshire through Red River to Iowa. It follows their hardships on ship, overland, and river trails, their transport via Pembina carts, and the 1830s-1840 migrations to Scotch Grove and Jones county. It notes Selkirk’s colony, Red River conflicts, and eventual Iowa settlement with shared labor, risk, and longing for a promised land.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scott
Robert ‘Burns
Harry Lauder
Maquoketa
Prhities
Iowa
Scotland
Lord Selkirk
Red River
Jones County
Caithness and
Sutherland
Highland
Sutherlandshire
Clyne
Kildonan
England
Duchess of Sutherland
London
Home Office
Thomas Douglas
Earl of Selkirk
Shildonan
Atlantic
Hudson Bay Company
Lake Winnipeg
Manitoba
North Dakota
Minnesota
Red ‘River
Assiniboine
North America
Lard Selkirk
Hudson’s Bay Company
Stornaway
Hebrides
Red
North-Weat Company
Hudson's Bay Company
Port Churchill
Hudson's Bay
York Factory
Selkirk
Fort Churchill
Churchill River
Fort Douglas
Winnipeg
Miles MacDonnell
The
Forks
Pembina River
North-West Company
MacDonnell
Duncan Cameron
North-West
Fort Gibralter
Upper Canada
Cuthbert
Grant
Pippin
Jack River
North- West Company
Hielanders
Robert Semple
Semple
Bois-Brules
Cuthbert Grant
Seven Oaks
Ted River
de Meuron
Fort William
Lake Superior
Church of
United States
Prairie du Chien
Wisconsin
Red River Colony
Red Iver
Red River Trail
St. Paul
Mississippi River
States
Eldorado
Alexander McLain
Black Hawk Purchase
Joshua
Dubuque
John Sutherland
Alexander Sutherland
David McCoy
Joseph Brimmer
Alexander
McLain
Promised Land
Spitoha
Maquoketa River
Scotch Grove
Donald
Ebenezer Sutherland
Donald Sinclair
Grandmother Livingston