Red River Valley colonist

Usage examples of selkirk.

So journeyed this strangely assorted couple down to old Fort Selkirk, then through fivescore miles of dismal wilderness to Stuart River.

York Yankees outfielder George Selkirk, because he ran on the front of his feet.

If the plan of union shall only be accepted in regard to the north western territory and the Pacific Provinces, the United States will aid the construction, on the terms named, of a railway from the western extremity of Lake Superior, in the State of Minnesota, by way of Pembina, Fort Garry, and the valley of the Saskatchewan, to the Pacific coast, north of latitude forty-nine degrees, besides securing all the rights and privileges of an American territory to the proposed territories of Selkirk, Saskatchewan, and Columbia.

With them the Selkirk settlers proceed south to Pembina and the Boundary to hunt buffalo.

You will, of course, take the stage to Carlisle, then on to Selkirk, where you will find no difficulty in hiring a chaise for the glorious ride to Abbotsford, where all the Scotts will be waiting to greet you with open arms and shared dreams and good talk and more food than anyone needs, to be washed down with more wine and brandy than any man should consume.

The stove was salvaged from a trash pile, and Annie rescued the safe from a hardware store in Selkirk.