This 3,500-year-old covered wagon is the best-preserved example in the world of this ancient form of wheeled transport.

Covered wagons may be indelibly associated with America's westward expansion, but our ancestors began using them long before ...

Uniquely KC is a Star series exploring what makes Kansas City special. From our award-winning barbecue to rich Midwestern history, we’re exploring why KC is the “Paris of the Plains.” The historic ...

WILL BE PROSECUTED. IT’S THE END OF AN ERA. IN WESTPORT, THE ICONIC COVERED WAGON AT WESTPORT ROAD AND SOUTHWEST TRAFFICWAY IS BEING REPLACED. KMBC NINE’S ALAN SHOPE EXPLAINS THERE IS A NEW THING ...

The Lchashen wagon features a complex mortise-and-tenon construction with bronze fittings that join at least 70 components, while its canopy frame alone required hundreds of precisely mortised holes.

WALCOTT, N.D. — A group of travelers is going more than 800 miles from Walker, Iowa, to St. John, North Dakota, in a horse-drawn covered wagon. On June 3, they stopped in Walcott, North Dakota, to ...

Between 1840 and 1860, 300,000 to 400,000 Americans moved west on covered wagons for 2,100 miles across the Oregon and California trails. In those two decades they transformed our nation and endured ...

The Star on Sunday, March 3, 1963, showed the prairie schooner at the opening celebration of the Old Westport Shopping Center. Some 200 people attended the Saturday dedication. The Kansas City Star ...