Travelers and an ox-drawn wagon on the road east from Oregon, ca.1932 

Drawing by Tom Hill, called "Crossing the Plains," showing a chain of ox-drawn covered wagons, ca.1850 

Three men standing on two wagons near a tank of water in Death Valley, ca.1900 

The painting "The Covered Wagon" by George Woodworth, ca.1850 

Photomontage of six old-time carriages, ca.1900 

Horse-drawn wagons hauling grain to depot, ca.1920 

Photomontage of six old-time carriages, ca.1900 

Stage coach from Vichy Springs at Ukiah, ca.1920 

Drawing by Edward Vischer depicting the a Southern California Stage Line stage coach en route between Santa Barbara and San Buenaventura, ca.1865-1871 

Painting by Einar Corsten Petersen, depicting a stage coach arriving in California, ca.1860 

Two horse-drawn wagons on the road between the Painted Desert and the San Francisco Mountains, Arizona, ca.1900 

Stage coach used by the Butterfield Stage company between Los Angeles and Saint Louis, ca.1858 

Team of horses pulling a covered wagon in Scott Valley, Siskiyou County, ca.1905 

Drawing by Edward Vischer depicting the Southern Overland Stage Station and watering place in San Luis Obispo, ca.1865 

Two traders and their horse-drawn wagon, Arizona, [s.d.] 

A painting "Staging in the Sierra Nevadas" by Gutzon Borglam, ca.1888 

Carl Eytel and George Wharton James in a horse-drawn wagon on the Butterfield Stage Road in the Colorado Desert, ca.1903 

Portrait of a stage coach driver in front of his coach, California, ca.1880-1890 

"A desert tragedy", the skeletal remains of a horse and buggy in the desert, ca.1900 

Drawing of a horse-drawn mail coach, ca.1905