Wagon train

A wagon train is a convoy or group of wagons who travel together for safety. A baggage train is a military wagon train used to carry the equipment and supplies needed by an army.^[1] They needed to carry enough supplies, including feed for the draft animals, for the entire journey.^[2] Wagon trains are most closely associated with American pioneers traveling west. As the population of the Thirteen Colonies grew, people migrated westward looking for inexpensive lands and new opportunities.^[3] The wagon had to carry all the supplies for the trip and all a family's personal belongings. While military use of wagon trains is ancient, the Romans built a network of roads for their armies and baggage trains to move throughout the empire.^[4]

Breaking up Camp at Sunrise, by Alfred Jacob Miller (1858–1860)