1838 Conestoga wagon jack, two foot tall when retracted

 https://www.finetoolj.com/auction/list-auctions/viewbids/12791/b64-477

These 250-year-old wagon tracks are a lasting sign of Dutch migrants crossing the mountains in South Africa, just West of Cape Town

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/gantouw-pass-wagon-trail-south-africa

1930s movie theater advertising exhibits

https://exploreuk.uky.edu/catalog/xt702v2c8t1s_267_1?f%5Bsource_s%5D%5B%5D=Lafayette+Studios+photographs%3A+1930s+decade&offset=2620&per_page=20
https://exploreuk.uky.edu/catalog/xt702v2c8t1s_1138_1?q=kentucky+theatre&offset=40&per_page=20

supply train near El Paso

https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/item/49079

a Conestoga wheel stander

https://www.facebook.com/groups/stiffspeed/permalink/1309928105820469

there is a covered wagon in Texas that has made the news papers a couple of times, the first time was in 1955, the second was more recent, when someone sent me a newspaper clipping, maybe in 2013

www.heralddemocrat.com

May 16, 1955 The Eagle, Bryan, Texas

80 -Year Old Woman Wants To Repeat Wagon Venture

SHERMAN. Tex. — Her daughter paid a man 30 cents to teach her to harness a horse. The horse bit him. That’s why Ma Weaver paid the 30 cents. Then Ma and her two daughters were off by covered wagon for Denver, Colo. Today, 21 years later, that covered wagon is a permanent fixture in the side yard of her home at 322 N. Burdette St.

Mrs. Birdie Weaver, Ma to all who know her, has only one regret these days. She can’t find anyone to repeat the trip with her. She’s 80. “I’d buy a new wagon,” she dreams. The original has rotted to much for such a journey. “It’s the only way to travel. Automobiles is awful. Just perfectly awful. I wouldn’t go anywhere in a car.”

The trip started from here in October, 1934. Mother, Betty and Beatrice arrived in Denver six months later, spent a year and returned the same way. The younger women were in their 20s. Beatrice now is Mrs. R. D. Spangler. Why did they make the trip? “Just for the fun of it,” says Ma Weaver with finality. It was no typical prairie schooner which made the voyage. Instead of canvas, the covering was of sheet metal. Coops I underneath carried their chickens. Winnie the milk cow tagged along behind wearing special shoes designed by the Weavers.

 The wagon doors had padlocks. Each woman had a revolver. Going up, they ran into rough weather—a snowstorm on the New Mexico plains and the famous Black Dusters sandstorms of the 30s. They lost three horses, but Ginger, a tough little mare, pulled and pulled and finally brought the wagon back to Sherman. She died of old age at 27. Once, on a shorter trip, a horse died and the Weavers were low on money. So they hitched Winnie the cow along-side Ginger and made it home.
Winnie died, elderly at 14, of a snakebite.

 At 80, Ma Weaver still helps Betsy look after 36 head of cattle and rises at 3 a. m .to milk half their 14 cows. The way she looks at it, all women should do as much. “Modern women,” she snorts, “ain’t no ’count.”

She was born in 1875 in East Texas, daughter of a former Confederate army surgeon who owned a plantation in antebellum days. “If those Yankees hadn’t come along and messed things up,” she says, “I would have had millions.” “Then men, all they know is devilment.”

https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/69415138/

Short notice, sorry... but no one told me about this, I stumbled across the news that tomorrow is the auction of a bunch of antiques from Knott's Berry Farm

the online catalog alone is worth a look.. the collected stuff from the old days when the place was family owned is incredible... if there was something that was going to fit in an Old West saloon, it's at the auction because the stuff was eventually relegated to storage... or phased out by the new corporate owners.

https://comics.ha.com/c/ecatalog.zx?saleNo=7151
hat tip to http://www.lamag.com/askchris/knotts-berry-farm-auctioning-off-historic-pieces-park/

Wagon train in Colorado in 1880

This wagon weighed 7 tons and was loaded with 20 tons of Borax. The tires on the wheels were 10 inches.

http://www.vintag.es/2016/12/76-amazing-vintage-photographs.html

20 mule team hauling ore from Borate through Mule Canyon (Calico) to Daggett, Circa (pre-) 1890s)

https://www.facebook.com/neatoldphotos.m.lucas2/

These "big teams" pulled massive wagons hauling borax from the Harmony Borax Works near Furnace Creek to the railhead near Mojave, a grueling 165 mile, ten day trip across primitive roads. Although the teams only ran for six years--1883 to 1889--they have made an enduring impression of the Old West.

This is primarily due to a successful advertising campaign promoting 20-Mule-Team Borax Soap. Today you may see two of the last remaining wagons here in Death Valley. One is in front of the Furnace Creek Ranch and the other is at Harmony Borax Works.



http://kdminer.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubsectionID=1&ArticleID=64741

100 year old Studebaker sheepcamp bed on 90 year old Packard running gear.

an example of a sheepcamp wagon interior

An original as it sits in Southern Idaho

https://www.facebook.com/groups/342912285774974/

Around 120 art students at Weber built the life-size cardboard wagon along with California based artist Kiel Johnson over the previous week.

At first glance, the covered wagon at Weber State University looks the same as the symbol of Utah’s past spotted throughout museums and history books.

 The wagon is large enough to carry a family. Supplies hang off of every open space and the entire set-up is the muted brown color of faded wood and layers of dust.

It is only on closer inspection that the wagon becomes visible for what it really is: a life-size sculpture made of cardboard and twine.

After an invitation to give a talk at Weber State earlier in the year, Johnson instead suggested a community sculpture project with students in the art department.

For one week, Johnson set up shop in the lobby of the Kimball Visual Arts Center. After designing the basic structure of the wagon, Johnson was joined by new artists every day who created their own pieces for the project. Students from the sculpture and design classes at Weber sketched out ideas for components to add to wagon.

These additions ranged from cardboard tools and silverware, to chickens, hats and plenty of guns.

http://www.standard.net/gallery/The-Prairie-Schooner-Project
http://www.standard.net/Profiles/2015/11/27/Crossing-the-country-on-cardboard
http://www.thebanyancollective.com/ogden-outdoor-adventure-show/2015/11/20/ogden-outdoor-adventure-show-219-art-adventure

Forrest Fenn stands next to an old U.S. Army wagon in the ruts of the Santa Fe Trail, which runs through his property

https://stories.californiasunday.com/2015-07-05/the-everlasting-forrest-fenn/


This poem written by Forrest Fenn contains nine clues that if followed precisely, will lead to the end of his rainbow and the treasure. Happy Hunting!

As I have gone alone in there
And with my treasures bold,
I can keep my secret where,
And hint of riches new and old.

Begin it where warm waters halt
 And take it in the canyon down,
Not far, but too far to walk.
Put in below the home of Brown.

From there it’s no place for the meek,
The end is ever drawing nigh;
There’ll be no paddle up your creek,
Just heavy loads and water high.

If you’ve been wise and found the blaze,
Look quickly down, your quest to cease,
But tarry scant with marvel gaze,
Just take the chest and go in peace.

So why is it that I must go
And leave my trove for all to seek?
The answer I already know,
I’ve done it tired, and now I’m weak.

So hear me all and listen good,
Your effort will be worth the cold.
If you are brave and in the wood
 I give you title to the gold.

Forrest Fenn says he has hidden a chest full of gold and other treasures and has invited anyone to go looking for it in the mountains North of Santa Fe. Searchers only need the poem from his memoir which include 9 clues listed to find it. 

a bridge made during the Civil War, by the New Hampshire Infantry

Found on https://www.facebook.com/whoknowseast1?fref=nf

the Chuckwagon, evolved from a US Army surplus Studebaker wagon, invented by Charles Goodnight, 1866

Above image from http://petticoatsandpistols.com/2009/03/06/stacey-kayne-chuckwagon-more-than-a-cowboys-meal-on-wheels/  where you will find a brief article about cowboy cattle drives and the chuckwagon, but for a very indepth article about the inventor and the chuckwagon, http://wildwesthistory.blogspot.com/2012/08/charles-goodnight-and-his-famous.html#comment-form

above poster is not very good resolution because they are trying to sell them, but can be found at http://www.midwestbuggy.com/images/sale_wagonposter.jpg

The Russian duke's wagon from the movie "Maverick" .. opulence on wooden wheels

I seem to find that wagons in the movies are far larger and cooler than any I believe were used in real life http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/wagon%20train  for the other movie wagons

great wagon design, from the Burt Lancaster movie "The Scalphunters" with Ossie Davis, Telly Savalas, and Shelly Winters

I liked the movie, Ossie and Burt have contrasting views about everything, Telly is the bad guy who has stolen from Burt, and this wagon is Shelly's transport to Mexico. The small stove over the water barrel, the little dresser and mirror, and the canvas shades that roll up are nice features, but the best part is the full size brass bed inside the wagon for a comfortable nights sleep, every night. No camping on the ground with a bedroll and blanket, hell no, it's a matress and pillows plus sheets and blankets = total comfort

The biggest wagon I've ever seen! Might only have been a movie prop, because they blew it to smithereens

Three axles... I've never seen one with 3 axles. This was in the movie "Duck You Sucker" with James Coburn
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067140/