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Originally Posted by GlenBarrington
If the character has never seen a wagon trail, he would not have the words to describe it. He would liken it to something he could relate to. It might well be a game trail or a large animal trail that he relates it to. But a trail so large that he could lay across that trail and it would span the space between his feet and his shoulders, or something like that.
Furthermore, if he likened it to a game trail or a large animal trail, he might well shudder or at least wonder at how strange an animal that could make such a trail could be.
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There is also the fact that the wagon would leave behind ruts so that the character who had never seen a wagon before would marvel at the strange animal tracks that were left behind in the dirt. We all work according to our own frame of reference. When the Conquistadors came to the America's I understand native tribes thought at first that they were seeing a half-man/half-horse creature as they had no frame of reference (the horses now in North America are descendants of horses that the Conquistadors brought with them) to tell them any different.