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.
1 That wagon back there-behind the potato cart-the thing that looks like a Conestoga wagon .
2 The green canvas awning was smoking, and the canvas of the Conestoga wagon was already aflame.
3 In a few moments Samson and Peasley arrived, with the latter's team hitched to a Conestoga wagon .
4 And as they made their way thither Mr. Lincoln passed them in a Conestoga wagon drawn by six milk-white horses.
5 You saw a beat-up old Conestoga wagon or something; and you saw a thousand other things that just don't make any sense!
6 In another he saw a flying creature as big as a Conestoga wagon fold its wings and plummet earthward like a hawk.
7 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.
8 There were two classes of Conestoga wagons and wagoners.
9 They were kids when their two families started West over the big prairies in Conestoga wagons .
10 Goods from Philadelphia and Baltimore were hauled in great Conestoga wagons drawn by four and six horses across the mountains to Pittsburg.
11 A history of Ireland in 100 objects: Conestoga wagons were first made by German immigrants in eastern Pennsylvania in the 1730s.
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