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A covered wagon, also called a prairie wagon, whitetop, [1] or prairie schooner, [2] is a horse-drawn or ox-drawn wagon used for passengers or freight hauling. It has a canvas, tarpaulin, or waterproof sheet which is stretched over removable wooden bows (also called hoops or tilts) and lashed to the body of the wagon.
English: The Covered Wagon, a silent western by James Cruze, was the highest-grossing film of 1923. Français : La Caravane vers l'Ouest (1923), western américain muet réalisé par James Cruze . Ce fut le film le plus rentable de l'année 1923.
Leo Friedlander's Covered Wagon (1934) is a high relief carving depicting a pioneer family in front of a covered wagon, located outside the Oregon State Capitol's main entrance. [1] [2] The figure group includes a father, mother and young boy, plus a horse. The father faces westward with his proper right hand shielding his eyes from the sun ...
A video clip of a Florida panther traveling through the preserve went viral earlier this year. Jerry Miller, the ranger who helped lead the wagon tour, has also captured rare footage of a Florida ...
The producers offered the owners $2 a day (equal to $35.77 today) and feed for their stock if they would bring the wagons for the movie. Most of the extras seen on film are the families who owned the covered wagons and were perfectly at home driving them and living out of them during the production. [12] 1923 trade magazine ad for The Covered Wagon
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English: Horizontal view of a covered wagon shown slightly obliquely from the right front corner. The canvas cover is raised in the front part. It is supported by four arches. The body is low and oblong. The driver's seat resting on springs rises from it.
Westward Ho the Wagons! is a 1956 American Western film starring Fess Parker and Kathleen Crowley and produced by Walt Disney Productions.Based on Mary Jane Carr's novel Children of the Covered Wagon, the film was produced by Bill Walsh, directed by William Beaudine, and released to theatres on December 20, 1956 by Buena Vista Distribution Company.