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covered wagon

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covered wagon: see Conestoga wagon Conestoga wagon (kŏn'əstō`gə)
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; prairie schooner prairie schooner, wagon covered with white canvas, made famous by its almost universal use in the migration across the Western prairies and plains, and so called in allusion to the white-topped schooners of the sea. It was a descendant of the Conestoga wagon .
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And now there is the thunder of the huge covered wagon coming home with sacks of grain.
And then soldiers commenced coming in from the east, but not with the gay assurance of those who came from the south and west--no, these others came in covered wagons, blood-soaked and suffering.
 
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