Scale Model Wagon

Years back I used to build scale models like this in 1/12 scale. All I have left are this wagon and a Napoleonic type Civil War cannon. A few others have ended up in a little country museum near Marmarth as well as with other collectors. These wagons figure strongly in the pioneer era of North Dakota. If you’d put bows on it and stretch canvas over them you’d have a covered wagon… A party of immigrants tipped one over and spent a cold wintry night under it where a lady traveling with them gave birth… A cowboy working on a roundup became badly injured. A doctor came from town to operate using an overturned box… Numerous referen

ces to hauling lumber from a rail head to build the first buildings occur… Two boys delivered their parents’ grain to a flour mill and coming home decided to make the oxen plod faster by shooting a Roman candle in their rear ends. The boys ended up walking, the wagon lay in pieces in a coulee, and the oxen were last seen stampeding over the hill… And so many more…