prairie schooner
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The most common wagon was the prairie schooner.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
Sirs: The "prairie schooner" was usually referred to as the "Conestoga" wagon.
From Time Magazine Archive
For about $800, a family of four rides a prairie schooner driven by a hired hand, with stops along the trail to investigate the Smoky Hill River or the surrounding hills.
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
Also, the prairie schooner had a seat where the driver, or at least his family, could ride during the seemingly endless days of the journey.
From Conestoga Wagons in Braddock's Campaign, 1755 by Berkebile, Donald H.
