The intense desert heat even causes your wagon's wooden wheels to shrink. What should you do with them at night to keep the iron rims from rolling off?
Answer Soak them in the river
While wind and hailstorms were one worry, heat was perhaps the most perilous. The desert would cause the wagon wheels to shrink and their iron rims to roll clean off. To remedy this, pioneers would soak the wheels in the river at night.
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