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Usually it was two horses that pulled the covered wagon.

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There were different kinds of covered wagons. The small ones might have been pulled by two horses, but the large ones needed more than that. The Conestoga wagons were big enough to carry six tons of cargo, and were pulled by teams of as many as eight horses, or a dozen oxen. There are links below.

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