TRANSPORTATION/EARLY SETTELMENT

 

Ox Cart Trails and Stagecoaches

 

1. Red River Ox Cart Trail

 

2. Stagecoaches

 

        Medora to Deadwood

 

        Deadwood Stagecoach

 

        Mail Contracts and Freighting

 

 

Steamboats

 

1. Red River (1859)

 

2. Missouri river

 

3. Devil’s Lake

 

 

Railroad

 

1. Railroads in North Dakota

        Northern Pacific

 

        Great Northern Railway

 

        Burlington Northern Railway

 

        Others

 

 

2. Land Grants and the Homestead Act

 

 

3. Passenger/Immigrant Transportation

 

 

4. Freight Shipments

 

 

5. Tourism

 

 

Automobiles

 

1. Good Roads Movement

        Automobile Associations, Trail Associations

        County and Townships built and maintained first roads

        1913—North Dakota’s first State Highway Commission created

        1916—First federal assistance through the Federal Aid Road Act

 

 

2. Interstate Highway System

        1956—Highway Act (increased taxes, created funding)

        I-94 replaced U.S. Highway 10 (east and west)

        I-29 replaced U.S. Highway 81 (north and south)

 

 

3. Rural Roads

 

 

Airplanes

 

1. Barnstorming (1910 show at State Fair in Grand Forks)

 

2. WWI

 

3. Entertainment

 

4. Moving freight, people, and mail

 

        First successful service was in conjunction with mail contracts

        1931—Northwest Airways provided first scheduled airline in ND