A Conestoga-type wagon that hauled settlers westward has marked the Old Westport Shopping Center since 1963. Now deteriorating, the wagon believed to be from the 1860s is scheduled to be removed ...

And, of course, the Westport covered wagon, which after 61 years has ended its journey. Wednesday it was set to be carted away. Kevin Maxon of Lawrence, now 68, was 7 back then.

On the plains, you could see a covered wagon coming from 30 or 40 miles away. Sometimes, we would get to the intersection and there’d be two ranchers having an argument.

Covered wagons and wagon trains are a lasting symbol of America’s expansion west from the 1820s through the 1860s, along the Santa Fe, California and Oregon Trails, all of which started in ...

Westport covered wagon ends 61-year run. This man (then a boy) ... From our award-winning barbecue to rich Midwestern history, we’re exploring why KC is the “Paris of the Plains. ...

In 1958, the Tellico Plains Kiwanis Club, advocating a Tennessee-North Carolina highway, organized a wagon train. On July 4, 67 covered wagons and 325 horseback riders made the trek to Murphy ...

The parade route map for the 1949 Covered Wagon Days even in San Bernardino. (Courtesy) Jarrett, who died in 2008 at age 81, was well aquatinted with the 1947 event.

Atop a slight rise, the wagon comes to a halt, and a tall, bearded man wearing a... Frank Reaugh, painter of Texas Plains, celebrated 74 years after death Houston Chronicle Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo ...

A depiction of the covered wagon appears on an architectural rendering. A Kroger supermarket held its ribbon cutting there in January 1963. The shopping center celebrated its grand opening for ...

San Bernardino has always been focused on transportation from events tied to the early pioneers and covered wagons to today’s Rendezvous Back to Route 66.