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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The white-tilted wagon used by emigrants in freighting on the prairies and great plains before the construction of transcontinental railroads.
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“But the arid southern country proved inconvenient, and collecting their effects in a prairie-schooner and driving their flocks before them, they effected a masterly change of base, which brought them two hundred miles to the northward and set them down in a delightful pasture-land, watered by three pretty creeks, near one of which they erected an adobe hut.”
“Stuart was a "forty-niner," who had crossed the continent in a prairie-schooner as a boy and had drifted into Virginia City in the days of its hot youth.”
“There he secured supplies and a prairie-schooner, hiring the ranchman himself, a rugged old plainsman, to drive it to the camp by the ice-bound river.”
“Now the mob stormed the entrance, and brushed the door-keepers to one side, and unbolted and swung back the big gates, and a swarm of yelling maniacs rushed the lumbering prairie-schooner up the slope into the building.”
“Preceding the young man, the historical prairie-schooner, accompanied by pioneers, continues the procession.”
“Then he strode away and proceeded to dress on the other side of the prairie-schooner, without so much as a second look at us.”
“Tumble-Weed and Tithonus to the old prairie-schooner -- for we'll be taking side-trails where no car could venture -- and pike off for a whole blessed day of care-free picnicking.”
“On the back of one of these lots stood a tumble-down wooden building, and hidden away in this building was the prairie-schooner.”
“Struthers has sent me a very satisfactory report from Casa Grande, which I dreamed last night had burned to the ground, compelling me and my kiddies to live in the old prairie-schooner, laboriously pulled about the prairie by Tithonus and Calamity Kate.”
“They had told Dinky-Dunk it wasn't a really-truly authentic prairie-schooner, since practically all of the trekking north of the Fiftieth Parallel has been done by means of the Red River cart.”
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