A large wagon with a cream or white cloth cover. The wagon bed was deep, turned up at each end like a boat, and painted red and blue. First manufactured in the Conestoga River Valley of Lancaster, PA, they were 11 feet high, 17-19 feet long (22 feet in length including canvas bonnet), and weighed between 3,000 and 3,500 pounds. These wagons could carry up to 10,000 pounds and were pulled by teams of 6-8 horses. .
The Conestoga Wagon is a heavy, broad-wheeled covered freight carrier used extensively during the United States' Westward Expansion in the late 1700s and 1800s. It was large enough to transport loads up to 8 short tons (7 metric tons), and was drawn by 4 to 8 mules or 4 to 6 oxen.