Standing in the Palmville Cemetery recently, after a family funeral service, I thought about what the land adjoining the southwest corner of the cemetery looked like when my late uncle Martin and aunt Irene Davidson owned the quarter (1932-1971) and the northwest wind used to blow unabated through the tombstones. Deer grazed along what used to be an open field in 1971, and before that, some 70 years, an old wagon trail wore through the woods following the west side of Mikinaak Creek to its confluence with the South Fork of the Roseau River, northeast of the cemetery, where it flows northward toward Wannaska, some three miles distant. A fifty by thirty mile survey map of Kittson, Roseau, and Marshall Counties The now-indistinguishable Thief River Falls to Roseau Wagon Trail, and clearing that the field had become is shaded now, north and west by tall rows of 41-year old white spruce and hybrid cotto...