How did wagon trains get to the USA west coast without roads? I can see getting across the prairies and deserts, but the mountains and forests and rivers are not so easy. But nobody is said to have built roads or passages that facilitated that passage. Is it really that easy to take a horse drawn wagon across such lands?
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How did wagon trains get to the USA west coast without roads? I can see getting across the prairies and deserts, but the mountains and forests and rivers are not so easy. But nobody is said to have built roads or passages that facilitated that passage. Is it really that easy to take a horse drawn wagon across such lands?