Festivities also included a wagon train trek from Bakersville to Hanna’s Town, frontier olympics, a horse-pulling contest, a historically-themed pageant, skydivers, a country music festival and displays of museum artifacts, wild animals and a moon rock.

Source: https://triblive.com/local/westmoreland/past-westmoreland-milestones-centennial-banquet-bicentennial-week-at-hannas-town/

Furthermore, Poitier emotionally anchors the film to Ruby Dee’s Ruth through her essential role in leading the wagon train and strength in confronting Buck’s vulnerabilities along the way.

Source: https://collider.com/sidney-poitier-harry-belafonte-buck-and-the-preacher-western/

He had come west from a farm in Indiana with a wagon train.

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