Horses, mules or oxen.
conestoga wagons
oxen
Prairie schooners are lighter. Conestoga wagons were too heavy to use for long trip, they were just for transporting goods. The prairie schooners were the ones that went out west.
Oxen were cheaper than horses, and stronger than mules.
Most people used oxen or horses. These were purchased before the trip was made.
1800s
yes, because they had to pull carts and wagons.
* Use wagon to carry people places. * To go to diffrent places. * wagons are also used to carry food. * Wagons wear use in a long time ago. * They were called wood and cloth. * Wagons might be slow but you wont get as much tierd as you get when you go walking. * In 4 wagons there could fit 20 persons. * Wagons are made out of wood. * People also use wagons to go camping. * Wagons are good to carry lots of thing inside them.
Horses may pull carriages, wagons, carts, or trams (kind of like street cars) as a source of transportation
Look at the convoy of Amish people in wagons.
Wagons were used widely after the production of cars... The first car is credited to Benz in 1893, however Ford started mass production in 1910 of automobiles which lowered the use of wagons... People still use horse and buggy wagons today in Lancaster area of Pennyslvania, PA. They are the Amish. The Wagon phase died out as widespread transportation in the 1930s and 1940's though
Their feet. Horses and wagons were expensive, and many people could not afford them.