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.
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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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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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So now we are all starting early in the morning via a prairie schooner to Boulder.
From Girl Scouts in the Rockies by Lillian Elizabeth Roy
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