Usage of "Conestoga wagon"

A large wagon with broad wheels and an arched canvas top; used by the United States pioneers to cross the prairies in the 19th century.

Uso de Conestoga wagon em inglês

That wagon back there-behind the potato cart-the thing that looks like a Conestoga wagon. 
 The Anubis Gates 

The green canvas awning was smoking, and the canvas of the Conestoga wagon was already aflame. 
 Swan Song 

In a few moments Samson and Peasley arrived, with the latter's team hitched to a Conestoga wagon. 
 A Man for the Ages: A Story of the Builders of Democracy 

And as they made their way thither Mr. Lincoln passed them in a Conestoga wagon drawn by six milk-white horses. 
 The Crisis — Volume 03 

You saw a beat-up old Conestoga wagon or something; and you saw a thousand other things that just don't make any sense! 
 Swan Song 

In another he saw a flying creature as big as a Conestoga wagon fold its wings and plummet earthward like a hawk. 
 The talisman 

On the building's roof was a full-sized old Conestoga wagon, and printed in big red letters on the wagon's side was PAWPAW'S. 
 Swan Song 

There were two classes of Conestoga wagons and wagoners. 
 Home Life in Colonial Days 

They were kids when their two families started West over the big prairies in Conestoga wagons. 
 The Hunted Woman 

Goods from Philadelphia and Baltimore were hauled in great Conestoga wagons drawn by four and six horses across the mountains to Pittsburg. 
 A School History of the United States 

A history of Ireland in 100 objects: Conestoga wagons were first made by German immigrants in eastern Pennsylvania in the 1730s. 
 The Irish Times 

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