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
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
Good shot: Mary, her hair disarrayed by the wind, snuggling up to John for a kiss, in the front seat of a prairie schooner.
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My chum inquired the contents of my prairie schooner, and I replied that I did not know, but would investigate.
From Dangers of the Trail in 1865 A Narrative of Actual Events by Patterson, H. DeF.
