>Guess I should assume since there were no comments on wagon tents.....that
>no one is familiar with this term?


This could be a canvas tarp attached to the rear of the wagon with two poles
to hold up the other end where the teamsters could get out of the weather
when they stopped at night.

John Garrett

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