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
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
Good shot: Mary, her hair disarrayed by the wind, snuggling up to John for a kiss, in the front seat of a prairie schooner.
From Time Magazine Archive
The prairie schooner, too, bore many of the characteristics of these early farm wagons.
From Conestoga Wagons in Braddock's Campaign, 1755 by Berkebile, Donald H.
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