When the station wagon drew abreast of the dusty dirt road that led up to the porch of the Culver house, Pamela turned the wheel, guiding the car to its familiar parking spot close to the house, and stopped.

It was the station wagon that had passed his cab on the road, the station wagon that had been parked at the Burch farm.

In the summer of 1860, a local miner, Daniel Strong, had surveyed a route over the Sierras for a wagon toll road, a route he realized would also suit a railroad.

Stony Pass, sometimes spelled Stoney Pass, an historic wagon road to the mining camps of the San Juans, is now a jeep trail.

In 995 the " community of Cuthbert " founded and settled at Durham, guided by what they thought was the will of the saint, as the wagon carrying his coffin back to Chester-le-Street after a temporary flight from a Danish invasion became stuck hard on the road.

In 1857, Edward Fitzgerald Beale was superintendent of an expedition to survey a wagon road along the 35th parallel from Fort Defiance, Arizona to the Colorado River.

He believed the wagon trains were large enough that they could build whatever road improvements they needed to make the trip with their wagons.

To get there, they helped build the Lassen Branch of the Applegate-Lassen Trail by cutting a wagon road through extensive forests.

In 1843 settlers cut a wagon road over these mountains making them passable for the first time to wagons.

The most popular was the Barlow Road, which was carved though the forest around Mount Hood from The Dalles in 1846 as a toll road at $ 5. 00 per wagon and 10 cents per head of livestock.

Shovels, crow bars, picks, hoes, mattocks, saws, hammers, axes and hatchets were used to clear or make a road through trees or brush, cut down the banks to cross a wash or steep banked stream, build a raft or bridge, or repair the wagon.

In 1808 a wagon road was laid out through what is now Clinton County.

In northern New Mexico, the rough road caused a wagon wheel to break.

It did not become a continuous wagon road until 1735.

" The road was constructed as a toll road — $ 5 / wagon — and was very successful.

Gold discoveries in the Illinois River valley and the Rogue River valley near Jacksonville in 1852, and the completion of a wagon road connecting the county with California to the south and Douglas County to the north led to an influx of non-native settlers.

Lt. Edward Fitzgerald Beale, a U. S. Navy officer in the service of the U. S. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers, was ordered by the U. S. War Department to build a federal wagon road across the 35th Parallel.

Remnants of the wagon road can still be seen in White Cliffs Canyon in Kingman.

The stage station ( Prescott to Phoenix wagon road via Black Canyon ) and post office nearby was named " Agua Fria.

A section of the pre-statehood wagon road, the Old Camden Trail, was a highly traveled road throughout the nineteenth century that connected Little Rock and Camden.

In September 1892, work on the wagon road to Pablo Beach was begun, with convicted labor.

This assisted in making a link in the first wagon road from Yreka to Red Bluff.

It was pierced by a wagon gate built of two wings.

She glanced around the clearing, taking in the wagon and the load of supplies and trappings scattered over the ground, the two kids, the whiteface bull that was chewing its cud just within the far reaches of the firelight.

Kathy was already in the wagon.

He'd started a fire and put coffee on, and now was busy at the work board of his chuck wagon.

I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.

Then, with a glory that almost wiped out the deep, downward sags in her careworn face, Matilda leaned over the wheel and shouted to Hez, who was stumbling along in the heat and the dust on the opposite side of the wagon `` Pa!!

`` Jackson recruited his critters, and him and me fixed up his wagon while we was waiting for you to catch up.

It was nearly sundown and he went to the back of the wagon, half-swimming his way, for he was not a tall man.

Then, in some way, this lack of faith in the cavalry became mixed up in his mind with the dragging effect of wagon trains and was hardened into a prejudice.

When he was bent over behind the wheel of the station wagon, feeling in his trouser cuffs for the ignition key which he had dropped a moment before, she came out of the house with an enormous Rumanian shawl over her head, which she had bought in that country during one of their trips abroad, and handed him a clean handkerchief through the window.

During the war it was in constant use by the wagon trains transporting supplies from the railhead at Grafton to the troops operating in the interior.

The meat wagon, therefore, was not out in front of the house any more, but the cluster of squad cars was still there and there was a cop on the door downstairs to screen any comings and goings.

Gun knew it was Car 12, the wagon, returned from delivering Ingleside's drunk-and-disorderlies to the City Jail.

He described it as brown in colour and the size of a wagon load ; it was a local landmark for more than 500 years.

It is possible that the Roman term basterna, denoting a type of wagon or litter, is derived from the name of this tribe, which was known, like many Germanic tribes, to travel with a wagon-train for their families.

In 1875 DuPont introduced Hexagonal powder for large artillery, which was pressed using shaped plates with a small center core ; about 1. 5 inches diameter, like a wagon wheel nut, the center hole widened as the grain burned.

The company's stranglehold on the region was broken by the first successful large wagon train to reach Oregon in 1843, led by Marcus Whitman.

After discontinuing the Frontera and Jackaroo models in 2003, Holden was only left with one all-wheel drive model: the Adventra, a Commodore-based station wagon.

" In addition, Grimm says that a wagon was once ascribed to Hel, with which Hel made journeys.

No real damage was done except to the temper of some who had to hunt for wagon wheels, gates, wagons, barrels, etc., much of which decorated the front street.