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
Sirs: The "prairie schooner" was usually referred to as the "Conestoga" wagon.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
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