The Covered Wagon and concrete oxen were built in 1932 by a pair of missionaries near the renowned 1733 Ranch, which marked the halfway point on the Lincoln Highway between Boston and San ...

Gregory Crouch’s review of Rinker Buck’s “The Oregon Trail” (Books, Aug. 1) properly emphasizes the superior value of mules versus horses as motive power for hauling covered wagons ...

Oxen and wagons only go so fast. Scott: It's still tough to conceptualize the fact the pioneers made 15 to 30 miles on a good day and we covered the western quarter of Nebraska in an hour.

KEARNEY — The Old Covered Wagon on U.S. Highway 30 west of Kearney is being spruced up before scores of visitors roll into town for the June 30-July 1 Lincoln ...

Likewise, oxen were often the choice of emigrants traveling west by covered wagon in the mid-1800s in the United States. Horses were considered ineffective because they could not live off prairie ...

Donald Martin traveled over 2,400 miles with his wagon and steer companion named Last Ox. Courtesy of Donald Martin. ... Martin's modernized covered wagon he pushed over 2,400 miles.

The newest addition to the ranch, American Milking Devon oxen hitched to a covered wagon, got spooked, causing two guests to fall, said Aaron Winter, the ranch's general manager.

T.S. Hawkins was enamored of the ability of some men to make a bull whip crack like a pistol and keep a team of oxen in order. Accordingly, he watched them closely and figured he’d caught on to ...

The covered wagon, also known as the Conestoga wagon or prairie schooner, worked its way across the American frontier powered by such livestock as mules, horses, or oxen. The wheels spun on ...

Covered wagons in the 19th and early 20th century were a principal form of transportation for Americans, especially for those who traveled great distances across the continent. They were the ...