The Buffalo River of Minnesota

The Buffalo river flows out of Tamarack Lake in the Tamarack National Wildlife Refuge in Becker County Minnesota.  It flows through Rock, Rice and Buffalo lakes, passes through the town of Hawley, Minnesota, through Buffalo River State Park, past Glyndon MN and then moves NNW to Georgetown MN where it flows into the Red River of the North. The Hudson Bay company maintained a trading post at the confluence of the Buffalo and Red.  R. M. Probstfield's home was located approximately at the lower corner of the "M" in Moorhead  on the Red River.  Probstfield directed the Thortvedt party directly west to the Buffalo. The Buffalo River Settlement would eventually extend from just north of Glyndon to just northeast of Kragnes on the Buffalo.  And yes, Kragnes took its name from pioneer A. O. Kragnes.