Wagons drawn by horses or oxen weren’t driven by just freighters. Wagons were the minivans of the old West into which migrants loaded family and belongings as they traveled westward. A few yokes ...

Every day I become a bigger fan of all the types of wagons that made it possible to inhabit the Great Plains of America.

When settlers started their trek west, most used oxen to pull their wagons. Contrary to what we saw in old western movies, regular horses were not strong enough to pull a wagon and were too expensive.

Before the arrival of railroads at the granite sheds and quarries, rollers, sleds and wagons drawn by horses and oxen were the primary means of granite transport. Even after the arrival of the ...

When the wagon-master escaped the yokes of the oxen were being burned, and preparations were also being made to burn the wagons. The teamsters were all taken prisoners.

In 1950, Orville Ewing’s covered wagon—pulled by mules and an ox—paid the toll to cross the Mississippi River at Alton’s Clark Bridge.

An ox had superior “terminal” value as meat, should it have been necessary to butcher one along the way. Lastly, the Indians, through whose country these wagon trains passed, were infinitely ...

SOUTH AFRICA has been called a ‘Two Miles an Hour Country.’ Its early history was made on springless wagons, behind countless spans of oxen, trekking, generation after generation, into the ...