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
I grew a little bored with that because there was a man, who is now a rather popular director . . . and he was always the child in the Conestoga wagon.
From Time Magazine Archive
Certainly, there is nothing intimate about this Menagerie, in which the supposedly fragile Wingfield family seems robust enough to set out for the frontier in a Conestoga wagon.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Maybe. Anyway, my great-grandfather got this mud from the bottom of the river sixty-four years ago. Next to my Conestoga wagon, it’s the best thing I have.”
From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli
