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A wagon train is a number of horse drawn wagons travelling together for safety.
Wagon trains.
Traveling afoot, many pioneers spread out across America. Others rode mules, horses, or bought a wagon and joined up with a wagon train. Back then, the Cadillac of wagons was the Conestoga wagon.
pioneers were worker men so they needed to get around the place quite quickly
Before the expansion of the US railroads, the best way for a traveler to move west of the Mississippi, was to become part of a wagon train heading west. They could also pay to be a passenger on a wagon train. The other way was the long ship route around the southern tip of South America. It would take months to reach California by doing that. Later as railroads continued to expand westward, train travel was often used.