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On July 14, it shared a painting depicting a young 19th-century couple in a covered wagon, craning over an infant, the plains and mountains extending into the distance behind them.

From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2025

Perhaps I was the chosen one who would carry these tales into a new generation, passing down stories of America’s wine-sloshed aunts like I was spinning a yarn in the back of a covered wagon.

From Salon ● Jan. 10, 2025

I doubted Dryden would last very long in a covered wagon out on the prairie.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2024

The chef’s menu was inspired by the famous Ride to Rendezvous, a five-day Methow Valley horseback and covered wagon excursion by the Washington Outfitters and Guides every spring.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 9, 2023

At Yale, Lawrence’s closest research collaborator was Jesse Beams, another rural Midwesterner—his grandparents had migrated from West Virginia to Kansas in a covered wagon.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik


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