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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
As our train overtook it, it began to assume form, and at last I saw that it was actually a prairie schooner.
From Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street by Street, Julian
