MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
THE OREGON TRAIL WESTWARD MIGRATION TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN
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Wagon Line
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Wagon Train
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Prairie Schooner Train
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Prairie Schooners
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Detailed explanation-1: -A wagon train is a group of wagons traveling together. Before the extensive use of military vehicles, baggage trains followed an army with supplies and ammunition.
Detailed explanation-2: -A wagon is an element of the train. It is a type of towed vehicle designed to move along a railway track. Unlike the car which is reserved for transporting people, the wagon is used for the transport of goods or animals.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -John Bartleson organized the Western Emigration Society and led the first wagon train of pioneers across the Rocky Mountains. On May 1, 1841 this group headed west out of Missouri. There were 69 adults, with only 5 woman and a couple children. None of them, including Bidwell and Bartleson had ever been to California.