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Oregon Trail
Pioneers walked beside their wagons most of the 2000 miles from Missouri to Oregon:
"The Oregon Trail was notoriously littered with all sorts of discarded stuff, evidence of the pioneers’ desperate attempts to lighten their loads. Under such circumstances, riding in the wagon would be be ill advised at best...The covered wagon was basically a long wooden box on wheels with sides about two feet high and a canvas top rising to a height of about five feet and then arching over several bows of bent hickory. The canvas was waterproofed with paint or linseed oil to keep the contents dry, (but many pioneers still got wet in them)."
Source: http://myamericanodyssey.com/the-long-hard-walk-tramping-westward-on-the-oregon-trail/
"The Oregon Trail was notoriously littered with all sorts of discarded stuff, evidence of the pioneers’ desperate attempts to lighten their loads. Under such circumstances, riding in the wagon would be be ill advised at best...The covered wagon was basically a long wooden box on wheels with sides about two feet high and a canvas top rising to a height of about five feet and then arching over several bows of bent hickory. The canvas was waterproofed with paint or linseed oil to keep the contents dry, (but many pioneers still got wet in them)."
Source: http://myamericanodyssey.com/the-long-hard-walk-tramping-westward-on-the-oregon-trail/