Conestoga wagon
Example Sentences
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The inauguration involves thousands of people, marching bands, horses, bomb-sniffing dogs and a Conestoga wagon, among other things.
From Washington Post • Jan. 18, 2017
Her father was a sign painter; her maternal grandparents had come west to Utah in a Conestoga wagon after the Civil War.
From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2013
The Conestoga wagon was made in Conestoga, Pa., which had been named for the Conestoga Indians.
From Time Magazine Archive
In a Conestoga wagon, young Andrew Benton crosses the wild Alleghenies, gets into practically everything out there from the 1760s on, up to and including the last Indian war dance at Chicago in 1835.
From Time Magazine Archive
We might as well have been traveling in a Conestoga wagon.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
