prairie schooner

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The most common wagon was the prairie schooner.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

The first man to do things in the lazy Santa Fe style was a Topeka lawyer named Cyrus Holliday, who dreamed of running a railroad into the great Southwest to replace the prairie schooner.

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.

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

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Lewis and Clarke, the Hudson's Bay Company men, and Marcus Whitman, supplemented their sturdy limbs and indomitable courage with the trusty saddle horse, the slow prairie schooner or the rude river raft.

From The Beauties of the State of Washington A Book for Tourists by Giles, Harry F.