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Paramount's "1883" features a wagon train of settlers crossing the Great Plains 1883. Were people still taking wagons west at this late date? Were trains a viable option? When did settlement travel stop being a wagon-focused endeavor?

by /u/RusticBohemian in /r/AskHistorians

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