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unusual facts about covered wagon



Springfield, Colorado

According to the Plainsman Herald from March 1988, the town was settled in 1888 or 1889 by Frank Pierce Tipton (DPOB 10 December 1852, Gallipolis, Ohio) who had travelled to Springfield from Moulton, Iowa, via Springfield, Missouri, in 1886 or 1887 in a covered wagon.


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A Dawn in the West

Baldwin, a native of Butler County, Ohio, traveled by covered wagon to San Francisco in 1853.

A Time for Miracles

' Eventually she, her daughter, and a band of young women who have joined her rattle west in a covered wagon into the countryside, to Emmitsburg, Maryland.

Henry Wellcome

Henry Solomon Wellcome was born in a frontier log cabin in Almond, Wisconsin to Rev. S. C. Wellcome, an itinerant missionary who travelled and preached in a covered wagon, and Mary Curtis Wellcome.

The Covered Wagon

The House That Shadows Built (1931) promotional film released by Paramount with excerpt of The Covered Wagon