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
Sirs: The "prairie schooner" was usually referred to as the "Conestoga" wagon.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Conestoga wagon was made in Conestoga, Pa., which had been named for the Conestoga Indians.
From Time Magazine Archive
We might as well have been traveling in a Conestoga wagon.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
