The popular version of the lone wagon train, forging its way west, in constant danger of losing the faintly marked trail, its occupants trembling in fear of imminent Indian massacre, is just a Hollywood concoction, says historian Sandra Myres, who has been researching the role of women in ...
Christine, a widow, meets Phillip Ayers on the train who had been an orphan raised by her father. He is going west to teach. He asks her to marry him but to her dismay the boys veto the idea which she will not override. Snipple arrives with a deputy to take the boys but Hawks ...
Trekking through the wilds of an untamed American West, 'Wagon Train' is led from post-Civil War Missouri towards California by wagon master Major Seth Adams (Ward Bond) and his scout, Flint McCullough (Robert Horton). Later episodes feature wagon master Christopher Hale (John McIntire) and ...
wagon train- a procession (of wagons or mules or camels) traveling together in single file; "we were part of a caravan of almost a thousand camels"; "they joined the wagon train for safety" caravan,train procession- the group action of a collection of people or animals or vehicles moving...
“What was it like for the people who were on those wagon trains going to Oregon back in the day?” FromWashington Times He came overland from New Mexico with a wagon train expedition called the Rowland Workman party; he was a tailor and a rifleman, both handy skills in the new frontie...
We returned to New Haven by train, only to find that the next shoreline train to our town did not leave until an hour and forty-five minutes later. A woman on the train, a complete stranger, offered to have her husband drive us home. Ordinarily we would have refused, but we were so...
It was afunnything to say, Elitha thought; did he really think they’d ever see the rest of thewagontrain again? A Elitha lepareció curiosoque dijera aquello, ¿de verdad creía que volverían a ver al resto de lacaravana?
After you’ve enjoyed the show and food, relax a little with the many other activities Bar D Chuckwagon has to offer. Take a ride with the kids on the Bar D Train. Try roping a steer or take aim with an old west style revolver at the “Rootin’ Tootin’ Shootin’” shooting galler...
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All the great West was then unknown. Moreover, Fort Hall was a natural division point, as quite often a third of the wagons of a train might be bound for California even before the discovery of gold. But Wingate and his associates felt that the Oregon immigration for that year, even ...