prairie schooner
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The most common wagon was the prairie schooner.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sirs: The "prairie schooner" was usually referred to as the "Conestoga" wagon.
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
Early the next morning I bought a ticket for Aberdeen, and entered the train crammed with movers who had found the "prairie schooner" all too slow.
From A Son of the Middle Border by Garland, Hamlin
