prairie schooner
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The most common wagon was the prairie schooner.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
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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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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Today, Ezra Meeker, eighty-four years old, is crossing the continent in a "schoonermobile," a motor car built on the lines of the old-time prairie schooner.
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