wagoners
Haulers with horses
Wagoners are people who drive wagons, particularly those who transported goods professionally before motorized vehicles.
The term appears mainly in historical contexts: The wagoners stopped at the inn for the night.
A wagoner might drive freight wagons, farm wagons, or military supply wagons.
Professional freight drivers
- driversVehicle operators or motivating forces
- cartersThose who drive carts
- haulersThose who transport goods
- freightersShips designed for hauling goods
coachmen · draymen · muleteers · transporters · carriers · hauliers · drovers · conveyors
Covered freight wagon
- prairie schoonersCanvas-topped pioneer wagons
- covered wagonsCanvas-topped frontier vehicles
- oxenCastrated male cattle
- mulesEquine crossbreeds or smugglers
draft horses · westward expansion · Oregon Trail · Santa Fe Trail · frontier · pioneers · settlers · colonial
Pulled four-wheeled vehicles
- cartsSmall wheeled vehicles
- draysFlat carts for hauling
- carriagesWheeled vehicles for passengers
- coachesThose who instruct athletes
buckboards · freight wagons · hay wagons · oxcarts · handcarts · wheelwrights · axles · harnesses
Military logistics transport columns
- ammunitionWeapon projectiles and charges
- provisionsStockpiled food and supplies
- logisticsCoordination of complex activities
- quartermastersMilitary supply managers
campaigns · artillery · encampments · rations · ordnance · munitions · army · regiments
teamsters
Professional freight drivers
- driversVehicle operators or motivating forces
- cartersThose who drive carts
- haulersThose who transport goods
freighters · coachmen · draymen · muleteers · transporters · carriers · hauliers · drovers · conveyors · tradesmen
Conestoga
Covered freight wagon
- prairie schoonersCanvas-topped pioneer wagons
- covered wagonsCanvas-topped frontier vehicles
- oxenCastrated male cattle
mules · draft horses · westward expansion · Oregon Trail · Santa Fe Trail · frontier · pioneers · settlers · colonial · overland
wagons
Pulled four-wheeled vehicles
coaches · buckboards · freight wagons · hay wagons · oxcarts · handcarts · wheelwrights · axles · harnesses · yokes
supply trains
Military logistics transport columns
- ammunitionWeapon projectiles and charges
- provisionsStockpiled food and supplies
- logisticsCoordination of complex activities
quartermasters · campaigns · artillery · encampments · rations · ordnance · munitions · army · regiments · Civil War
wagonerstruckers
Commercial freight drivers
truck drivers · motorists · aviators · pilots · astronauts
wagonersshopkeepers
Retail establishment proprietors
innkeepers · stationmasters · farmers · blacksmiths · merchants