Hello Mr. Jim Brown, W5DRP@aol.com >From what I have read on the Internet, these families and friends got together and traveled from place to place by wagon train. It was much safer than traveling alone. Very much like the old movies, we use to go see. Virginia Overstreet Carver< SunShin714@aol.com >Wm A O 1811 GA>John W O 1859 Montgomery Co., MS< >Wm Robt O 1898 Montgomery Co., MS.<