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n. (plural of prairie schooner English)
Usage examples of "prairie schooners".
We came to Fort Laramie next day, through a sea of prairie schooners and immigrant tents and Army horse lines and Indian lodges, all clustered for a couple of miles round the great adobe stockade by the Platte.
A little less than half a mile off, he saw four prairie schooners rolling in a fast, tight formation.
Decent, law-abiding families, hoping to homestead free land, crossed the plains in prairie schooners or took their chances on any one of the multitude of riverboats navigating the Missouri River.
A very old car too: it must have been there fifty years, its half-buried spoked wheels as lonesome and antique as the broken wheels of prairie schooners sunken on Midwestern prairies.
The lighted walls and floor at the level at which people walked and talked and hurried seemed no more than a little band of light, a circle of warmth and comfort, against the awful depth of space, like prairie schooners drawn up for the night under a sharp desert sky.
He directed Mormon carpenters in Iowa to build handcarts as cheap substitutes for the horse-drawn prairie schooners.
The Conestoga wagons and prairie schooners of pioneer days were covered with hemp canvas.