prairie schooner
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The most common wagon was the prairie schooner.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
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 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.
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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.
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A prairie schooner is a long deep wagon bed with flaring sides, about eight feet high and twenty feet long.
From Colorado?The Bright Romance of American History by Grable, F. C.
