{"id":276,"date":"2016-10-10T19:39:56","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T19:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/?p=276"},"modified":"2016-10-10T19:39:56","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T19:39:56","slug":"wagon-insights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/?p=276","title":{"rendered":"Wagon Insights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published on genealogyatheart.blogspot.com on 2 March 2016.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been reading through the diaries that were sent to me from Indiana and I&#8217;ve found a few surprises about life in the late 1800&#8217;s. \u00a0Here are 10 wagon facts I never thought about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You had to wash your wagon<\/li>\n<li>When you purchased a new wagon you traded in your old wagon, like we do today with our cars<\/li>\n<li>Wagons broke down ALOT! \u00a0Poor road conditions, skittish horses and driver error contributed to the break downs.<\/li>\n<li>You were responsible for the cost of damages caused by your runaway horse and wagon<\/li>\n<li>There were ALOT of serious accidents around wagons &#8211; falling out of, getting run over by, getting injured by overhanging tree limbs, etc.<\/li>\n<li>When your wagon needed repairs someone would come to you but it was much more expensive than if you somehow got the wagon to the wagon shop to be repaired.<\/li>\n<li>Depending on the repair needed, it could take a few hours or several days to get the part<\/li>\n<li>Wheels fell off wagons frequently<\/li>\n<li>If you were going to take a train you hired a livery person to pick you up and take you home, unless you had relatives to help you out.<\/li>\n<li>Family members borrowed each other&#8217;s wagons for various jobs that needed to be accomplished<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<p>Who knew?!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<table class=\"tr-caption-container\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\" data-blogger-escaped-style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td data-blogger-escaped-style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.natureworldnews.com\/data\/images\/full\/21428\/a-19th-century-wagon-uncovered-by-drought-in-oregons-detroit-lake.jpg?w=600\" data-blogger-escaped-style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.natureworldnews.com%2Fdata%2Fimages%2Ffull%2F21428%2Fa-19th-century-wagon-uncovered-by-drought-in-oregons-detroit-lake.jpg%3Fw%3D600&amp;container=blogger&amp;gadget=a&amp;rewriteMime=image%2F*\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" border=\"0\" data-orig-src=\"http:\/\/images.natureworldnews.com\/data\/images\/full\/21428\/a-19th-century-wagon-uncovered-by-drought-in-oregons-detroit-lake.jpg?w=600\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published on genealogyatheart.blogspot.com on 2 March 2016. I&#8217;ve been reading through the diaries that were sent to me from Indiana and I&#8217;ve found a few surprises about life in the late 1800&#8217;s. \u00a0Here are 10 wagon facts I never thought about: You had to wash your wagon When you purchased a new wagon you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/?p=276\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wagon Insights&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[255],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-wagons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}