The Red River Oxcart Trail Bike Tour

Targets for this project were achieved and, in some cases, exceeded. The most critical early element was the research and development of the body of knowledge on the Red River Oxcart Trail, Native Americans and the Metis Culture. Both historians quickly dug into their particular area. This allowed us to develop the tour outline much earlier in the project than we had anticipated. As a result, a draft outline was available for the first peer review. This was very useful for the reviewers in providing overall comments to the research, the tour approach and consideration of stories to be used. The feedback provided important information for our final development of the tour outline and the final peer review. Our peer reviewers were very positive about the final outcome of the work with only minor suggestions (such as a date correction) to be made.