Mississippi, Lettie and her impoverished Black family set out for Nebraska in a covered wagon, part of the westward migration ...

A million people make wilderness pilgrimage to honour 13th-century Virgin Mary icon - The romería del Rocío has grown into one of world’s largest, most unique Catholic pilgrimages.

It refers to their version of the icon of the Virgin, carried by an ox-driven cart covered in silver and fresh flowers. At each night’s camp, wagons are set in a circle and people gather to worship ...

The women and children had walked the previous day when the oxen they had hired “could not be found.” The next day, a man named Knutson, the first storekeeper in the village of Houston, sent two yokes ...

In place of horses or oxen, ... Here, Highcountry relies on a rugged Kodiak Canvas truck tent to turn the 7-foot (2.1-m) trailer bed into a modern-day covered wagon.

“The Covered Wagon” was months in the making with its cost said to have been in the neighborhood of $800,000. It is the biggest thing since Griffith made “The Birth of a Nation.” Like ...

A covered wagon was like any other wagon, ... Along with meat and milk, they could keep up with the oxen. Many wagon trains had up to 200 head of cattle. If the wagons were too heavy, ...

CAPTURE OF WAGONS AND OXEN BY THE REBELS. Share full article. Nov. 17, 1861. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from November 17, 1861, Page 8 Buy Reprints.

The covered wagon symbolizes the pioneering spirit of the era, a nod to the westward expansion that defined much of Lincoln’s time. Combining these elements with a larger-than-life twist, the World’s ...

Casper 77-year-old Kim Merchant likes to live like it’s 1869, including building his own covered wagon and teaching others how hardy and self-sufficient ... Another reenactor was helping a man put ...