Just as the
Conestoga wagon succeeded the Dearborn when Americans headed for the frontier, the Sisters of Loretto are ready to adapt to new vehicles to carry on their frontier work.
While working on another project, I learned that
Conestoga wagons 1reached their peak activity between 1820 and 1840.
Some of the clan began building wagons in their blacksmith shops, and are credited with design and construction of the famous
Conestoga wagon with its distinctive boat-like box design.
Bill Eckhoff's red barn, for instance, is packed with everything from a
Conestoga wagon to a 1921 John Deere Waterloo Boy tractor, vintage porcelain signs to shop tools, miniature tractors to an original 1911 Mullins boat.
John, the father, and the older boys built a
Conestoga wagon for the trip, and the family traveled to Ashland, Ohio, where John built a new home and blacksmith shop.
Western Ave., has 13
Conestoga wagons for overnight lodging.
The Sherman children dubbed their new home-away-from-home "The Covered Wagon" because of its resemblance to the
Conestoga wagons of American westward expansion of the nineteenth century.
The legends of their
Conestoga wagons linger on in civic names and city crests.
The so called prairie schooners which carried our early settlers to the new lands in the West were known as
Conestoga Wagons hearing the name of the Conestoga River Valley in Pennsylvania where they were constructed.
16, 17, and 18 on Highway 2 between Woodstock and Paris, a historic settlers route for carriages and wagons including the large freight wagons known as
Conestoga wagons. The event is a fundraiser for the Brantford General Hospital and will be held at the century farm of Gerry and Fran Morgan, west of Princeton.
The word needs silhouetting silence.) Even so, artful Grande Acquisitors, brahmin grave robbers, shrine desecrators, by degrees made death masks of copped cultures; Inca copper, turquoise, jewelry, Aztec gold and emerald jaguars (they could not mine the sunshine, the light or shadow of the undulating stone Mayan pyramidal snake) stone-tongues alabaster Babylonian tombstones, semi-abstract African masks, attesting to the manifests of Manifest Destiny's slave-ships, galleons and
Conestoga wagons: the fine art of holocaust, after holocaust, after....
But what the Court did, in my opinion, was the equivalent of when John Marshall found those first few flecks of gold at Sutter's Mill in 1848: it started the Gold Rush, with tens of thousands of prospectors packing their
Conestoga wagons and heading West to seek their fortunes.