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Information Related to the Text |  Writing Skill |  Warm-up Activity |  Text |  Information Related to the Text Covered wagon The wagon, first built in the early 1700s, is a kind of a four-wheeled road vehicle drawn by horses or oxen. Its white canvas roof is high and round. Wheels with broad rims prevent the wagon from bogging down in the mud. If necessary, the wheels can be removed and the wagon can be used as a boat. Mainly used for heavy loads, it became the essential transport for the pioneers as they moved west during the late 18th and most of the 19th centuries. Life during the journey was dangerous and hard. The pioneers had to move in groups in the form of wagon trains so that they could help one another when necessary. The Black Hills The Black Hills are located in South Dakota and Wyoming. They look strangely black from a distance and hence get the name. In 1868, the United States government and the Indians concluded a treaty which granted the Black Hills to the Indians forever. But with the discovery of gold in1874, miners rushed in and destroyed the peaceful life of the Indians, these South Dakota hills became the richest gold-producing area of North America. In 1927, a sculptor, Gutzon Borglum, began to carve the heads of four US presidents on the side of the mountain and completed them in 1941. They are George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt.

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