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To: robert b furman who wrote (8656)	3/12/2022 3:13:48 PM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 13789

re <<lumbering down a muddy road>> Joe Brown quickly realized that his creation needed better roads, so he ordered an improved version and found a better place to test it. I'll post more on that later. Note: The newspaper article I posted is from the Red-Wing Sentinel, dated December 3rd, 1859. newspapers.com The article was copied from the "Winona Rep.", which I assume means Winona Republican. Red Wing and Minnesota are old river towns on the west bank of the Mississippi in southern Minnesota. The location Dunleith is now called East Dubuque, Illinois. So the contraption was likely shipped by rail from Newark to Dunleith. From there it would have gone by steamboat up the Mississippi River, and thence up the Minnesota River to the little town of Henderson. The location Selkirk is near Winnipeg, Manitoba.