prairie schooner

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The most common wagon was the prairie schooner.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

When it arrived, it turned out to be a steam engine instead of a prairie schooner and not such an irresistable choo-choo at that.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sirs: The "prairie schooner" was usually referred to as the "Conestoga" wagon.

From Time Magazine Archive

There it will begin tests that will culminate in flights that could do for space colonization what the prairie schooner and the railroads did for the settling of America.

From Time Magazine Archive

The wagon had been transformed by a canvas canopy over the bed into what was popularly known as a "prairie schooner."

From Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 by Brady, Cyrus Townsend