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Wheels with metal rims were used on many wheels well into the nineteenth century. Look at this settlers wagon below - it is the kind of wagon that people moved their whole family in, when they were finding a new place to live in a big country like the United States. The wagon was often pulled by oxen rather than horses.
For shorter local trips, something like this buckboard, shown with a cowboy driving it, would be used. Not so good in wet weather!
People would also drive little carts around behind a pony, to get from place to place. The yellow wagon on the right below is a farm cart, and this would be used to carry hay or other farm needs around.
Then they quickly put the bands around the rim of the wheel, and pour cold water on. The cold water makes the metal shrink again, very quickly, and this makes the metal rim fit tightly over the wood.
Even today, you might see a caravan like the one on the left. People used to live in these caravans, and travel around the countryside. The right hand cart is a handcart, that used to be used in the cities and towns. People would load the things they were trying to sell into the cart, and push it around, calling out so that customers would come and buy what they had for sale.