USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Covered Wagons The main vehicle used to carry the pioneer’s belongings was the covered wagon. Sometimes these wagons were called “Prairie Schooners", because they were like boats going over the vast prairies of the west. The wagons were made of wood with iron around the wheels like tires.

Detailed explanation-2: -The wagon train is probably one of those images. What exactly was a wagon train? It was a group of covered wagons, usually around 100 of them. These carried people and their supplies to the West before there was a transcontinental railroad.

Detailed explanation-3: -5. How did the emigrants solve their problems of getting the wagons over steep mountains? a. They took the wagons apart and used chains and pulleys to move them over the mountains.

Detailed explanation-4: -The pioneers would use picks and shovels to cut down stream banks to get their wagons down the incline and into the water. Other times men would gently ease a wagon down the steep slope by tying a long rope to the axle of the wagons.