Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Red River Trails" in English language version.
When we contemplate the mighty tide of immigration which has flowed towards the North these six years past, and has already filled the valley of the Upper Mississippi with settlers, and which will this year flow over the height of land and fill up the valley of the Red River, is there no danger of being carried away by that flood, and that we may thereby lose our nationality?
This petition is reproduced in Kernaghan, Hudson's Bay and Red River Settlement (1857), pp. 12–14.
When we contemplate the mighty tide of immigration which has flowed towards the North these six years past, and has already filled the valley of the Upper Mississippi with settlers, and which will this year flow over the height of land and fill up the valley of the Red River, is there no danger of being carried away by that flood, and that we may thereby lose our nationality?
This petition is reproduced in Kernaghan, Hudson's Bay and Red River Settlement (1857), pp. 12–14.