page_title: Wagon train
hierarchical_section_title: Wagon train
caption_attribution_description: English: Re-enactment of Mormon pioneers in the 1912 Pioneer Day Parade at Liberty Park, Salt Lake City, Utah. Photographer Shipler Commercial Photographers; Shipler, Harry Commercial photo taken on assignment, published circa 1912 URL: http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/USHS_Shipler&amp;CISOPTR=5043&amp;CISOBOX=1&amp;REC=5
context_page_description: A wagon train is a group of wagons traveling together. Before the extensive military vehicles, baggage trains followed an army with supplies and ammunition.
  In the American West, settlers traveling across the plains and mountain passes in covered wagons banded together for mutual assistance. Although wagon trains are associated with the Old West, the Trekboers of South Africa also traveled in caravans of covered wagons.
context_section_description: A wagon train is a group of wagons traveling together. Before the extensive military vehicles, baggage trains followed an army with supplies and ammunition.
  In the American West, settlers traveling across the plains and mountain passes in covered wagons banded together for mutual assistance. Although wagon trains are associated with the Old West, the Trekboers of South Africa also traveled in caravans of covered wagons.
caption: 1912 Pioneer Day re-enactment of a wagon train in Utah.
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