prairie wagon

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In the second, a prairie wagon rigged with sails like a ship crashes into a store front.

From Time Magazine Archive

What a contrast between the elegant Locomobile car and the humble prairie wagon, drawn by four shaggy burros, chosen because they could endure hardships!

From Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway by Gladding, Effie Price

The Nations of the West were grouped around that prairie wagon, drawn by two oxen.

From The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts and palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with a discussion of its architecture, its sculpture, its mural decorations, its coloring and its lighting, preceded by a history of its growth by Barry, John D. (John Daniel)

American figures grouped around prairie wagon, drawn by two oxen.

From The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts and palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with a discussion of its architecture, its sculpture, its mural decorations, its coloring and its lighting, preceded by a history of its growth by Barry, John D. (John Daniel)

There is not often a brake on a prairie wagon, and as the chain that locked the wheels had obviously broken, Harding's intention was plain.

From Harding of Allenwood by Bindloss, Harold