# Another Wagon Train episode **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 3, 2018, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-wagon-train-episode/809940 "2018-03-03T00:44:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2018, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-wagon-train-episode/809940/1 "2018-03-03T00:44:11Z")
Jay Silverheels was in the episode I just watched. He was a good Indian, slew the bad Indians left and right with his sidekick, Noah Beery. Where did they get the empty wagons for New Lovers Who Meet on the Trail to drive? Do they have empties tied on behind? ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2018, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-wagon-train-episode/809940/2 "2018-03-03T01:16:20Z")
I was hoping this thread was going to be about the new _Star Trek_ series. I am disappoint. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2018, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-wagon-train-episode/809940/3 "2018-03-03T01:34:09Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Where did they get the empty wagons for New Lovers Who Meet on the Trail to drive? Do they have empties tied on behind? There were forts at different points along both the California and Oregon trails. I imagine they had some used wagons for sale at discount prices (probably salvaged after the families traveling in them had been massacred by hostiles). ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2018, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-wagon-train-episode/809940/4 "2018-03-03T01:50:44Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > I imagine they had some used wagons for sale at discount prices (probably salvaged after the families traveling in them had been massacred by hostiles). Or salvaged from all the families who died of Dysentery. I’ve seen the _Oregon Trail_ game… ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2018, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-wagon-train-episode/809940/5 "2018-03-03T02:30:37Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > There were forts at different points along both the California and Oregon trails. I imagine they had some used wagons for sale at discount prices (probably salvaged after the families traveling in them had been massacred by hostiles). “Only driven by a little old lady who died of dysentery!” “But they are prairie miles!” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2018, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-wagon-train-episode/809940/6 "2018-03-04T00:43:36Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > “Only driven by a little old lady who died of dysentery!” > > “But they are prairie miles!” “The latest model from St Louis. Previous owner was a Mormon who never went over three miles an hour.”