Wagon train
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This article is about the group of animal-powered vehicles travelling together. For other uses, see Wagon train (disambiguation).
"Baggage train" redirects here. For the military use of the term, see Train (military).
A wagon train is a group of wagons traveling together. Before the extensive use of military vehicles, baggage trains followed an army with supplies and ammunition.
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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.