Former Territorial Governor Willis Gorman, c.1872.

Oil-on-canvas painting of Henry H. Sibley, 1860. Painting by Thomas Cantwell Healy.

Sepia-tone photograph of railroad construction taken by Benjamin Franklin Upton, c.1868.

Map reproduced in William Watts Folwell's History of Minnesota, Vol. 2 showing railroad lines in Minnesota as graded, located, proposed, and constructed between 1857 and 1862.

Joseph Rolette portrayed as a Métis in a pastel by an unknown artist, c.1890.

Angélique Jerome Rolette, wife of Joseph Rolette, c.1880.

Fur Trade fort at Pembina with Red River Trail oxcarts in the foreground, 1860.

Red River Carts encamped, 1858.

Rolette (standing) with business associates Henry Hastings Sibley (right), and possibly Franklin Steele (left), c.1857. Uploaded by Wikimedia Commons user Bobak.

Red River Carts loading supplies at a trading house in St. Paul, 1854.