0 a long line of wagons pulled by horses or oxen, used by people in the 19th century who were travelling to the western US with their possessions in order to live there
This was about young, difficult offenders, who have to travel on a six months' wagon train as a sentence.
After complaints that those traveling with livestock would slow down the entire group, the wagon train was split into two groups.
The hired men begin thinking about ways to commandeer the wagon train.
There were other small groups who also left the wagon train for help.
A wagon train of pioneers in light silhouette looms above.
This was a remote location with no railroads, and all supplies having to be carried long distances by riverboat, wagon train or horseback.
These animals were usually the daytime responsibility of one or more herder(s) and the nighttime responsibility of the three or more wagon train guards.
The wagon train was to lead the retreat, followed by the cavalry, then the infantry.