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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.
The Conestoga wagon is a more robust variant of covered wagon – it has the general characteristics of being a wooden wagon with both hickory bows on top to hold up a waterproof canvas and wooden wheels. Covered wagons are generally pulled by draft horses and act as both a transport vehicle and mobile home. They were specialized vehicles for ...
The most common vehicle for Oregon and California-bound pioneers was a covered wagon pulled by a team of oxen or mules (which were greatly preferred for their endurance and strength over horses) in the dry semi-arid terrain common to the high plains in the heat of summer. This heat could cause the wagons to catch on fire.
Covered wagons and wagon trains are a lasting symbol of America’s expansion west from the 1820s through the 1860s, along the Santa Fe, California and Oregon Trails, all of which started in ...
Once owned by a York Springs family, a two-century-old Conestoga Wagon was moved into the new York County History Center building.
The Covered Wagon lobby poster. The Covered Wagon is a 1923 American silent epic Western film released by Paramount Pictures.The film was directed by James Cruze based on a 1922 novel of the same name by Emerson Hough about a group of pioneers traveling through the old West from Kansas to Oregon.
It began as a wagon route in the 1890s and was originally slated to start in the Whatcom County village of Glacier on the Mount Baker Highway, according to HistoryLink.org, the website of the ...
Lassen was the leader of a Wagon train from Missouri to California. The Wagon train included 12 covered wagons full of emigrants heading west, some part of the California Gold Rush. The Lassen Emigrant Trail was used from 1848 to 1853 by large groups of prospectors. Indian wars started along the trail so emigrants started to use other trails.