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Boone's Lick Trail Covered Wagon MO42 |
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 Picture courtesy of Jim Kuntz.
 Picture courtesy of Jim Kuntz.
Boone's Lick Trail
Covered Wagon - circa 1820-1860
A variety of wagons used the trails during the westward migration. The Conestoga wagon was the most durable. It was built in the Pennsylvania Valley between 1750-1840. Prairie schooners and covered farm wagons were also used, pulled by horses, oxen or mules. Mules were preferred; a team could cost up to two hundred dollars. Water barrels were filled along the fresh spring creek called Louis Blanchette's Creek. Blanchette was the founder of St. Charles in 1769.
[Between the wagon and the building in the background is Blanchette Creek.]
* Historical Marker * South Main Preservation Society of St. Charles, Missouri.
4th St. & Boone's Lick Rd., St. Charles, Saint Charles County Missouri
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