Conestoga wagon
Example Sentences
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The inauguration involves thousands of people, marching bands, horses, bomb-sniffing dogs and a Conestoga wagon, among other things.
From Washington Post • Jan. 18, 2017
Her father was a sign painter; her maternal grandparents had come west to Utah in a Conestoga wagon after the Civil War.
From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2013
The Conestoga wagon was made in Conestoga, Pa., which had been named for the Conestoga Indians.
From Time Magazine Archive
I grew a little bored with that because there was a man, who is now a rather popular director . . . and he was always the child in the Conestoga wagon.
From Time Magazine Archive
We might as well have been traveling in a Conestoga wagon.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
