But records from eighteen fifty-eight show that as many as one thousand eight hundred wagons made the trip that year.

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The ground still shows the path cut deep into the earth by the wheels of thousands of wagons.

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Then it was put on overland company stage coaches light wagons pulled by four or six horses.

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Until a railroad could be built, supplies were carried west in wagons pulled by horses or oxen.

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Engineers had to cut trees and cover the muddy roads with logs so wagons would not sink.

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Wagons traveled the Santa Fe Trail from eighteen twenty-two until a railroad replaced it in eighteen seventy-nine.

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Whichever kind of animal pulled the wagons, moving along the Santa Fe Trail was generally unexciting.

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Three years later, the company had three thousand five hundred wagons and forty thousand oxen.

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The president would sometimes watch the wagons arriving with soldiers wounded in the war.

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Visitors can explore the ruins of the buildings and the ruts made by wagons.

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The next year he used wagons so he could carry more goods to sell.

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A small group of Mormon men attacked and destroyed the army's supply wagons.

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There were more than fifteen thousand people, and many wagons and farm animals.

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An average wagon train included twenty-five to thirty-five wagons pulled by oxen.

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The line of wagons carrying wounded soldiers was twenty-five kilometers long.

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Mexican and American troops rode with the wagons to provide protection.

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General Lee permitted northern medical wagons to return to the battlefield.

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But the wagons were not permitted to stop for any reason.

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If attacked, the wagons could quickly form a circle for defense.

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They had built roads and bridges. They had driven wagons.

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Within one week, supply wagons were rolling into Chattanooga.

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They started with five hundred wagons.

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