prairie schooner
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The most common wagon was the prairie schooner.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
With fresh paint, new lumber and much of America out on the open road in the modern prairie schooner, the motor home, Tombstone was back in business, a going concern.
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
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
My chum inquired the contents of my prairie schooner, and I replied that I did not know, but would investigate.
From Dangers of the Trail in 1865 A Narrative of Actual Events by Patterson, H. DeF.
