
The Conestoga Wagon - Circa 1840 photo 176
Open wagons and oxen were also use to traves across country.

Photo courtesy of Dave Stein, Kurt Weill Foundation, NY
Circa 1820s
1829 - The Stourbridge Lion
1829 -The Tom Thumb
1830 - The Best Friend of Charleston
1831 - The DeWitt Clinton
1832 - The Atlantic
1837 - The William Galloway
Circa 1840 - The Conestoga Wagon
1856 - The William Mason
1861 - William Crooks
1869 - The Joining of the Rails
1860s - Passenger and Baggage Car
1875 - The J K Bowker - 1875
1939 - Pullman Passenger Car
The Grand Finale
Starting around 1840 and lasting for a couple decades, the Conestoga Wagon moved men, women, and children across the Great Plains to the west coast..