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
Good shot: Mary, her hair disarrayed by the wind, snuggling up to John for a kiss, in the front seat of a prairie schooner.
From Time Magazine Archive
For about $800, a family of four rides a prairie schooner driven by a hired hand, with stops along the trail to investigate the Smoky Hill River or the surrounding hills.
From Time Magazine Archive
The prairie schooner, too, bore many of the characteristics of these early farm wagons.
From Conestoga Wagons in Braddock's Campaign, 1755 by Berkebile, Donald H.
