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Sentence Examples
A descendant of the Conestoga wagon was the prairie schooner, used by the pioneers to transport their possessions westward.
It is a replica of a prairie schooner, not of a Conestoga.
Unlike the Conestoga, which had a body that angled up at each end and prevented cargo from tipping or falling out, the prairie schooner had a flat horizontal body.
The name prairie schooner was derived from the wagon's white canvas cover, or bonnet, which gave it the appearance, from a distance, of the sailing ship known as a schooner.
Prairie schooner, 19th-century covered wagon popularly used by emigrants traveling to the American West.
Examples from Classical Literature
So now we are all starting early in the morning via a prairie schooner to Boulder.
They had met emigrants on the Ohio, and had seen the white sail of the prairie schooner in all of the forest ways.
A prairie schooner is a long deep wagon bed with flaring sides, about eight feet high and twenty feet long.
You see, my first plan is entirely upset by a prairie schooner, an Indian, and a horse-dealer.
A neighbor took my father with him and met us at McGregor Landing with an ox team hitched to a prairie schooner.
We camped for three weeks, living in our prairie schooner, while the men put up the wild hay.
Then I reckon that's the rig-out for the crew of a prairie schooner, eh?
A prairie schooner should have some sort of a hound following it.
Her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry 2000, Threepenny Review, Denver Quarterly, Antioch Review, Prairie Schooner, and Poetry East.
