The backs of the red wagons, converted by imagination into covered wagons, had hand-drawn signs that read: “Oregon or Bust.” Third-graders from Cambridge Elementary School took a step back in time ...

MARY JANE CARR, 92, a writer whose book on pioneer life was turned into the 1956 Walt Disney epic Westward Ho! The Wagons, died Monday. After a period as a free-lance writer, Carr joined the Morning ...

No conveyance symbolized this country’s westward migration quite like the covered wagon. The “prairie schooner” figured prominently in the romanticized paintings of 19th-Century artists such as Albert ...