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  2. Oregon Trail Ruts - Wikipedia

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    Oregon Trail Ruts State Historic Site is a preserved site of wagon ruts of the Oregon Trail on the North Platte River, about 0.5 miles south of Guernsey, Wyoming. The Oregon Trail here was winding up towards South Pass. Here, wagon wheels, draft animals, and people wore down the trail into a sandstone ridge about two to six feet, during its ...

  3. Covered wagon - Wikipedia

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    Narrow covered wagon used by west-bound Canadian settlers c. 1885 Painting showing a wagon train of covered wagons. 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 ...

  4. Conestoga wagon - Wikipedia

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    The Conestoga wagon wheels were high so that the axles (or wheel centers) could clear through or move over low obstacles such as tree stumps and mud. [25] The wheels, equipped with iron tires, ranged in size in accordance to the wagon's size, the largest having been used for the Pitt wagon variants of the early 19th century for mountain ...

  5. Horse-drawn vehicle - Wikipedia

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    Britzka: A long, spacious carriage of four wheels, pulled by two horses. Brougham: A specific, light four-wheeled carriage, circa mid-19th century. Buckboard: A very simple four-wheeled wagon, circa the early 19th century. Buggy: a light, open, four-wheeled carriage, often driven by its owner. Cabriolet: A two-wheel carriage with a folding hood.

  6. Vardo (Romani wagon) - Wikipedia

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    A vardo (also Romani wag(g)on, Gypsy wagon, living wagon, caravan, van and house-on-wheels) is a four-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle traditionally used by travelling Romanichal as their home. [ 1 ] : 89–90, 168 [ 2 ] : 138 The name v ardo is a Romani term believed to have originated from the Ossetic wærdon meaning cart or carriage. [ 3 ]

  7. Bullock cart - Wikipedia

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    The first indications of the use of a wagon (cart tracks, incisions, model wheels) are dated to around 4400 BC [citation needed].The oldest wooden wheels usable for transport were found in southern Russia and dated to 3325 ± 125 BC. [1]

  8. Artillery wheel - Wikipedia

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    Walter Hancock's wedge wheel (artillery wheel) diagram, 1834. The artillery wheel was a nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century style of wagon, gun carriage, and automobile wheel. Rather than having its spokes mortised into a wooden nave (hub), it has them fitted together in a keystone fashion with miter joints, bolted into a two-piece ...

  9. Wagon Wheels - Wikipedia

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    In Australia, Wagon Wheels are now produced by Arnott's Biscuits. George Weston Foods Limited sold the brand to Arnott's in August 2003. [3] [full citation needed]In the United Kingdom Wagon Wheels are produced and distributed by Burton's Foods who separated from the Weston family connection when they were sold out of Associated British Foods in 2000. [4]

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