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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 ...
Sybertsville is a community in Sugarloaf Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. [1] It is one mile northwest of Conyngham and six miles west-northwest of Hazleton. Nescopeck Creek runs west through the area into the Susquehanna River. Route 93 passes through the community. It uses the Sugarloaf zip code of 18251. [2]
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 ...
Nov. 28—Mimi Kaufman of Salem isn't starting a bakery. But she also wasn't quite ready to give up the flagship red cake dessert at the Wagon Wheel, the restaurant she has owned alongside her ...
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
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.
Covered Wagon Musicians was a musical ensemble of active-duty military personnel stationed at Mountain Home Air Force Base. [2] According to the band and Slow Death , United States Army and Air Force personnel assigned to the 1st Cavalry Division originally wrote the words to "Napalm Sticks to Kids" while stationed in South Vietnam .