Ramsey County History – Spring 1964: “Wolves, Indians, Bitter Cold . . . : A Fur Trader’s Perilous Journey”

Wolves, Indians, Bitter Cold . . . : A Fur Trader’s Perilous Journey

Daniel Hunt came to St. Anthony, Minnesota, in 1857, and, like so many others, engaged in the fur trade. He served in the Civil War, married, and settled in St. Paul, where he lived until his death in 1891. In the winter of 1859, Hunt traveled by dog sled from Fort Garry in Canada to St. Anthony, a three-week journey, which he described in his diary and in a letter written thirty years later. It was a very hard trip. Hunt ran into cold, heavy snow, illness, fire, an encounter with an angry Ojibwe; he also hired, and then held by force, an Ojibwe boy as a guide. The original diary and letter are at Ramsey County Historical Society.
PDF of FurTrader article.