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- Dictionarywagon train
noun
- 1. a convoy or train of covered horse-drawn wagons, as used by pioneers or settlers in North America. historical
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wagon train, caravan of wagons organized by settlers in the United States for emigration to the West during the late 18th and most of the 19th centuries. Composed of up to 100 Conestoga wagon s ( q.v.; sometimes called prairie schooners), wagon trains soon became the prevailing mode of long-distance overland transportation for both people and goods.
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Wagon Train is an American Western television series that aired for eight seasons, first on the NBC television network (1957–1962) and then on ABC (1962–1965). Wagon Train debuted on September 18, 1957 and reached the top of the Nielsen ratings. It is the fictional adventure story of a large westbound wagon train through the American ...
Jan 11, 2023 · A wagon train was the dominant form of transportation for early US settlers en route to the American West during the 19th century. The travel wagon itself consisted of a 4-wheeled, wooden cart ...
- Wagon trains, as remembered from the 1800s, no longer exist. Though they were the dominant form of overland transportation at the time, they were e...
- The distance a wagon could travel in a day depended on the terrain. A wagon train crossing the flat plains of the midwestern United States might tr...
- The purpose of a wagon train was to have a larger, communal group to navigate the challenges of western overland travel. Being in a wagon train was...
A wagon train is a convoy or group of wagons who travel together for safety. A baggage train is a military wagon train used to carry the equipment and supplies needed by an army. [1] They needed to carry enough supplies, including feed for the draft animals, for the entire journey. [2] Wagon trains are most closely associated with American ...
Oct 21, 2019 · Perhaps the largest wagon train to travel on the Oregon Trail left Missouri in 1843 with over 100 wagons, 1,000 men, women and children, and 5,000 head of oxen and cattle. The train was led by a Methodist missionary named Dr. Elijah White. But wagon trains became so common on the trail that processions seemed to have no beginning or end.
May 23, 2018 · WAGON TRAINS. For purposes of protection and efficiency, traders and emigrants of the trans-Mississippi West before 1880 customarily gathered their wagons into more or less organized caravans or trains. William L. Sublette, a partner in the reorganized Rocky Mountain Fur Company, conducted a ten-wagon, mule-drawn train over the Oregon Trail ...
WAGON TRAIN definition: 1. a long line of wagons pulled by horses or oxen, used by people in the 19th century who were…. Learn more.
