Oftentimes, when older Westerns depict wagons or stagecoaches, only one set of wheel tracks are shown. Why is that?

Oftentimes, when older Westerns depict wagons or stagecoaches, only one set of wheel tracks are shown. Why is that? Troy Carlile Tulsa, Oklahoma It probably means they got the shot in one take. You can imagine what a real street looked like in the Old West, but in those old films, Hollywood sanitized the set. Groundskeepers manicured the streets for each take. That’s why you never saw horse poop or any other debris lying on the street. There were plenty of other things, too—have you noti