| 单词 | prairie schooner |
| 例句 | These wagons were larger and more rugged than the prairie schooners. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z When people asked him about that big old ship he was building, he’d ask them, “Haven’t you ever heard of a prairie schooner?” Seaworthy sailing boat leaves Pierre in search of ocean 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z Past the last sign of civilization, the Mormon town of Kanesville, a mile or two east of the Missouri River, the prairie schooners were fairly out at sea. Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound 2012-04-03T02:00:30.677Z The wagon had been transformed by a canvas canopy over the bed into what was popularly known as a "prairie schooner." Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 2012-03-12T03:00:26.883Z It was along the lines of the old American "prairie schooner," except that it was much bigger and heavier in every way. Adventures in Swaziland The Story of a South African Boer 2012-01-01T03:00:06.887Z The most common wagon was the prairie schooner. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Jack, we shall have to get a prairie schooner, and trek to the West.' Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z The order was given and after moments that seemed hours, down the long hill they rushed pell-mell, without lock or brake, the prairie schooners tossing like their namesakes on a stormy sea. Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound 2012-04-03T02:00:30.677Z Today, Ezra Meeker, eighty-four years old, is crossing the continent in a "schoonermobile," a motor car built on the lines of the old-time prairie schooner. A Hundred and Sixty Books by Washington Authors Some Other Writers Who are Contributors to Periodical Literature, Lines Worth Knowing by Heart 2011-11-27T03:00:12.497Z So now we are all starting early in the morning via a prairie schooner to Boulder. Girl Scouts in the Rockies 2011-11-16T03:00:25.047Z Each individual or family was responsible for bringing any supplies they needed, including their own prairie schooners. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In a month the Platte Trail will be so thick you can walk clear from the Missouri to the mountains on the tops of the prairie schooners. The Pike's Peak Rush Terry in the New Gold Fields 2011-11-11T03:00:26.697Z “Many a prairie schooner has passed that way, Miss, an’ wasn’t none the worse for it, neither. The Motor Maids Across the Continent 2011-09-17T02:00:31.140Z Renamed the “prairie schooner,” it carried civilization and emigration across the continent to the Golden Gate. Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z “I remember with what enthusiasm the scouts hailed the suggestion of traveling a la prairie schooner.” Girl Scouts in the Rockies 2011-11-16T03:00:25.047Z A prairie schooner is a long deep wagon bed with flaring sides, about eight feet high and twenty feet long. Colorado?The Bright Romance of American History 2011-08-25T02:00:28.183Z At Benton an outfit was purchased, and Parson Morris with his wife Nancy embarked in a "prairie schooner" for their home across the plains. The Warden of the Plains and Other Stories of Life in the Canadian North-west 2011-07-03T02:00:11.037Z "Say, moon-face, didn't you ever hear tell of a prairie schooner!" The Pony Rider Boys in the Alkali or, Finding a Key to the Desert Maze 2011-06-15T02:00:19.437Z We ship by rail, and out West they used to have ‘prairie schooners.’ Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z You see, my first plan is entirely upset by a prairie schooner, an Indian, and a horse-dealer. Girl Scouts in the Rockies 2011-11-16T03:00:25.047Z We found there a large number of persons and prairie schooners, but most of them were on a voyage to the gold-fields of California. Memoirs of Orange Jacobs 2011-05-01T02:00:10.143Z He was a man of few words, but an excellent boss-captain of the fleet of prairie schooners. The Warden of the Plains and Other Stories of Life in the Canadian North-west 2011-07-03T02:00:11.037Z As our train overtook it, it began to assume form, and at last I saw that it was actually a prairie schooner. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z There was Andy Smith, the ship builder from Glasgow, now learning the drift of stone-boats and prairie schooners, and puffing on his short clay pipe the while. Neighbours 2011-03-05T03:00:27.277Z East of Lincoln we met a prairie schooner and team of oxen. Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences 2011-01-05T03:00:58.503Z It was August, and the hot sun poured down its relentless rays on the prairie schooner and its occupants travelling slowly on; but Jack never grumbled. Left on the Prairie The cover, like a small “prairie schooner,” was patriotic in extreme, shining with the national colors, newly applied by Aunt Sally herself, and with no stingy hand. Jessica Trent: Her Life on a Ranch That would need a prairie schooner—no, a prairie steamboat—a prairie yacht! Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus Why, my son, you must have imagined you were travelling on a four-wheeled steamboat all night, instead of an old water-logged prairie schooner. Campmates A Story of the Plains In coming along the Lincoln Highway, we are simply traversing the old overland road along which the prairie schooners of the pioneers passed. Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway Their grub-waggon followed them, and shortly after Lem got his horses harnessed, and he, Jeff, and Jack, taking their places in their prairie schooner, rolled on once more towards the mountains. Left on the Prairie A land of delight it is, from Puget Sound to the riviera of California, from the snow mountains to the sagebrush plains, where rose the dust of immigrants' "prairie schooners" not so many years ago. In the Oregon Country Out-Doors in Oregon, Washington, and California Together with some Legendary Lore, and Glimpses of the Modern West in the Making "Well, we haven't got anything you can rightly call a camp; but we're located in a prairie schooner near by the spring in the valley." Dick in the Desert These Santa Fe wagons were not prairie schooners; they were prairie frigates. Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters These people think nothing of traveling long distances in their prairie schooners with their supplies for roadside camping at night. Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway It was a starlight night, which enabled him before very long to make out a big prairie schooner a little way ahead of him, with four horses tethered near by long ropes. Left on the Prairie Ranchmen came riding in, followed by prairie schooners or round-up wagons, for their camps; motley nondescripts from Deadwood and places round about. The Preacher of Cedar Mountain A Tale of the Open Country Lewis and Clarke, the Hudson's Bay Company men, and Marcus Whitman, supplemented their sturdy limbs and indomitable courage with the trusty saddle horse, the slow prairie schooner or the rude river raft. The Beauties of the State of Washington A Book for Tourists The prairie schooner, too, bore many of the characteristics of these early farm wagons. Conestoga Wagons in Braddock's Campaign, 1755 They had a unique outfit, a prairie schooner drawn by four burros abreast. Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway Cheyenne consisted of two rows of primitive looking wooden houses, behind which were "anchored" many emigrants' wagons, or "prairie schooners" as they were called. Annals of Music in America A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events An authentic prairie schooner, a true veteran of the Plains, was out of the question. Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail They were made up of four and six mule teams with heavy "prairie schooners" or canvas-covered wagons. War from the Inside The Story of the 132nd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in the War for the Suppression of the Rebellion, 1862-1863 Also, the prairie schooner had a seat where the driver, or at least his family, could ride during the seemingly endless days of the journey. Conestoga Wagons in Braddock's Campaign, 1755 As he spoke, a long, low emigrant wagon, or “prairie schooner,” drawn by three yoke of dun-colored oxen, toiled up the road. The Boy Settlers A Story of Early Times in Kansas Every prairie schooner that goes that way is like a sail of the ‘Mayflower.’ Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands; The Rhine to the Arctic; A Summer Trip of the Zigzag Club Through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden In the great automobile factory near Cleveland, Ohio, the old prairie schooner came into vivid contrast with the new means of following the trail. Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail Early the next morning I bought a ticket for Aberdeen, and entered the train crammed with movers who had found the "prairie schooner" all too slow. A Son of the Middle Border In this respect the prairie schooner differed not only from the early farm wagons, but also from the large freighting Conestogas, like that in figure 6, which dates from about 1830. Conestoga Wagons in Braddock's Campaign, 1755 Sometimes they rode northward to the main trail in hope of sighting some prairie schooner coming hitherward, but not once that season did the trail hold a human being for them. Winning the Wilderness My chum inquired the contents of my prairie schooner, and I replied that I did not know, but would investigate. Dangers of the Trail in 1865 A Narrative of Actual Events An old "prairie schooner" was rebuilt, and a yoke of sturdy oxen was trained to make the trip. Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail This was my first experience over the plains in a real prairie schooner. Black Beaver The Trapper In the sunny outlines were seen a train of prairie schooners winding over the plain. In The Boyhood of Lincoln A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk A month later a half-dozen prairie schooners moved out on the old 85 sunflower-bordered trail. Winning the Wilderness For miles we could see those immense, white covered prairie schooners in corral formation. Dangers of the Trail in 1865 A Narrative of Actual Events Transportation was supplied by regular freighters who employed a large number of men to conduct the white-topped prairie schooners across the unsettled plains between the Missouri River and the mountains. Outline of the development of the internal commerce of the United States 1789-1900 "He said they had prairie schooners here, and schooners were boats, of course." The Sunbridge Girls at Six Star Ranch Everywhere were to be seen the white prairie schooner and the little village of people that followed it. In The Boyhood of Lincoln A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk We call them prairie schooners because they are the sort of wagon the first settlers crossed the country in. The Story of Wool They were then transferred to large white covered prairie schooners and shipped to their different points of destination in trains of from twenty-five to one hundred wagons. Dangers of the Trail in 1865 A Narrative of Actual Events "They are just like prairie schooners," said one young man, to Lily's huge delight, for she had never before seen so much provincialism all at once. Tutors' Lane In the street a luxurious limousine was tooting for a ramshackle prairie schooner to turn to one side. The Sunbridge Girls at Six Star Ranch They had met emigrants on the Ohio, and had seen the white sail of the prairie schooner in all of the forest ways. In The Boyhood of Lincoln A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk But amid it all an old prairie schooner, gotten from God knows where, started out from the dismantled camp across the field. The heart of happy hollow A collection of stories And here and there a new automobile parked beside a prairie schooner. Land of the Burnt Thigh Slowly and laboriously the "prairie schooner" lumbered along the uneven route. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Clearly, they considered the prairie schooners and their precious contents already their own, as well as the horses bunched in the rear. Kiddie the Scout Two new saloons opened while "Curly" resigned as chef for the Lazy S Outfit to become the orchestra in a new dance hall which arrived about midnight in a prairie schooner. The Lady Doc The pioneers of Denver town were the captains or mates of prairie schooners, stranded in the midst of a sealike desert. Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska Such wagons were rude affairs, great prairie schooners, hooded in canvas to keep out the rain. The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier Merrifield and I go on horseback, each taking a spare pony; which will be led behind the wagon, a light "prairie schooner" drawn by two stout horses, and driven by an old French Canadian. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Twenty-four hours later we were in the midst of a wide, sunny prairie, across which, in white-topped prairie schooners, settlers were moving just as they had passed our door in Iowa thirty years before. A Daughter of the Middle Border They came in prairie schooners, travel-stained and weary, their horses thin and jaded from the long, heavy pull across the sandy trail of the sagebrush desert. The Lady Doc It was evident that the scenes he had witnessed had made a profound impression on him and that he was still immersed in the atmosphere of prairie schooners, lurking Indians, and desert hold-ups. Steve and the Steam Engine Several miles were covered, and they were on the point of giving up the chase when they encountered a settler with his prairie schooner, or big covered wagon, on his way to Guadalupe. For the Liberty of Texas We camped for three weeks, living in our prairie schooner, while the men put up the wild hay. Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History When he looked back again at the wagon train, he could still see a small, golden head gleaming in the first prairie schooner. Kid Wolf of Texas Ever after Dr. Harpe remembered him as she saw him first framed in the white canvas opening of the prairie schooner. The Lady Doc Amid the confusion the owners of the prairie schooners leaped to the seats of their wagons, lashed forward their tired horses, and disappeared in safety with the terrified women and children. Steve and the Steam Engine Young Philip Armour joined the long caravan of Forty-Niners, and crossed the "Great American Desert" with all his possessions in a prairie schooner drawn by mules. Pushing to the Front A neighbor took my father with him and met us at McGregor Landing with an ox team hitched to a prairie schooner. Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History In this way he fixed a point in his mind—an imaginary dot that he must reach if he meant to find the prairie schooners. Kid Wolf of Texas The prairie schooner trekked northward over the border carrying migrants in search of homes when there was no government official to turn them back or to question the terminus of their travels. The Masques of Ottawa There was a dramatic little scene and then Miss Pennington, "registering" weeping, went inside the "prairie schooner," as the big covered wagon was called. The Moving Picture Girls at Rocky Ranch Or, Great Days Among the Cowboys Plenty of teams—great "prairie schooners," loaded with every conceivable thing for supplying the wants of an isolated non-producing community, and drawn by ten or fourteen mules—had been passed through the day. The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems The wagons, in which we rode and in which we carried our household goods were the real "prairie schooner" of early days. Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History From the ruts left in the soil, Kid Wolf estimated that the outfit must consist of a large number of prairie schooners, at least twenty. Kid Wolf of Texas The white arched prairie schooners were drawn up in a ring, the defensive bulwark of the plains. The Emigrant Trail Big wagons, of the old-fashioned "prairie schooner" type, were made ready. The Moving Picture Girls at Rocky Ranch Or, Great Days Among the Cowboys That was before the tide of settlement had spilled into the valley, before nesters had driven in their prairie schooners, homesteaded the water-holes, and strung barb-wire fences across the range. Steve Yeager So with all haste the "prairie schooners" were prepared. Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History The Harrises came into possession of the Warrens' prairie schooner and drove off to the east. The Settling of the Sage The McMurdo's prairie schooner rolled off to a place where the lupines were high, and Glen pitched the tent. The Emigrant Trail He too came West in a prairie schooner and remembers all its wildness, its uncouthness, its railroadless state. Green Valley For often she paused at her work, looking up from her wash-tub toward the highway, when a prairie schooner sailed by, and lifting her face skyward for an instant, as her lips moved in silence. A Certain Rich Man We had with us two covered wagons—known as prairie schooners. Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History Steel rails were crowding close behind the prairie schooners and the ox-bows. The Settling of the Sage Thinking it over afterwards, the young man decided that she did not belong in the picture with a prairie schooner and camp kettles, because she looked so like an illustration in a book of beauty. The Emigrant Trail They consisted of two large "prairie schooners," drawn by three pairs of oxen each, a lighter wagon, drawn by four horses, beside which four cows, two ponies, and four dogs were usually grouped. Captured by the Navajos When he wishes more land for his growing sons, he "sells out," fits up his commodious covered wagon, called "the prairie schooner," and with implements, supplies, cattle and horses, starts on the Western "trail." The Romantic Settlement of Lord Selkirk's Colonists The Pioneers of Manitoba In June score of prairie schooners, loaded with old and young, rattled over the plains from the East. A Man for the Ages A Story of the Builders of Democracy Distant strings of prairie schooners and ox-bows faded from his mind's eye and he way once more conscious of the red steer with the Three Bar brand that had stirred up the train of reflections. The Settling of the Sage After threading the swift, brown current, the trail zigzagged up a clay bank, channeled into deep ruts by the spring's fleet of prairie schooners. The Emigrant Trail These were "prairie schooners," covered with old, weather-beaten canvas, creaking along on wheels on which mud had long taken the place of paint, and drawn by mules! Injun and Whitey to the Rescue And sometimes it seemed to Lydia that they were a pioneer man and woman sitting in their prairie schooner watching for the Indians. Lydia of the Pines Fringing the hitching rails in front of its buildings were various vehicles—the heavy wagons of Mexican freighters, the light buckboard of the cattleman, and the prairie schooner of the homesteader. Square Deal Sanderson So, there being no water, we of course had to provide ourselves with a craft that could navigate dry land; which is precisely what the Rattletrap was-namely, a "prairie schooner." The Voyage of the Rattletrap One day's companionship in the creaking prairie schooner had made the three women more intimate than a year of city visiting would have done. The Emigrant Trail Not a railway train, mind you, but a line of those white-covered vehicles drawn by strong-limbed mules, which are most properly styled "prairie schooners." Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills Auberry, as it chanced, fell in with a party bound for Denver, five men who had two wagons, a heavy Conestoga freight wagon, or prairie schooner, and a lighter vehicle without a cover. The Way of a Man It was the night he determined to evolve the final theory of social progress, which would wipe out all other theories as the steam locomotive had wiped out the prairie schooner. Queed I've heard Dad tell many a time of that caravan of forty-niners, all their earthly possessions packed in one of those old prairie schooners, drawn by slow, patient oxen. Buffalo Roost The prairie schooner was now close at hand, and they straggled forward to meet it, one behind the other, through the brushing of the knee-high bushes. The Emigrant Trail For her father and her mother, And her brothers, late last night, Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, 'fore light. Nancy MacIntyre You know the "prairie schooner" was the old-time emigrant wagon that was forever crossing the plains in Forty-nine and the early Fifties. In the Footprints of the Padres Say, you shanghaied me on your d––––d old prairie schooner—did I tell you to drive me to a farm? Heart of the West [Annotated] Since that time the stage-coach has outdistanced the bull team, the pony express has swept past the stage-coach, the locomotive has done in an hour what the prairie schooner did in three or four days. An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody) Thirty years ago he rode a prairie schooner down into this canyon. Tales of lonely trails Asked about that prairie schooner, Said that they was friends of hisn, Like to wore me plumb to frazzles With his everlasting quiz'n. Nancy MacIntyre I remember one cool twilight when a "prairie schooner," that was time-worn and weather-beaten, drifted down Montgomery Street from Market Street, and rounded the corner of Sutter Street, where it hove to. In the Footprints of the Padres This invitation we accepted, and very early one beautiful morning in March, my wife, four children and myself, with driver and guide, embarked on a "prairie schooner," drawn by three horses, for the promised land. The Gentleman from Everywhere New prairie schooners came all the time into view from the East, and others went over the sky-line into the West. Vandemark's Folly No, I permit no 'prairie schooner' to stop, even that their oxen may drink. The Gringos Have you seen a prairie schooner-- Old style freighter--pass this way? Nancy MacIntyre Over the sleigh was a tiny cover of sail-cloth shaped like that of a prairie schooner. Darrel of the Blessed Isles Horse-cars jingle where the prairie schooner used to stick fast in the mud-hole, scooped to that end, opposite the saloon; and there is a Belt Electric Service paying fabulous dividends. Letters of Travel (1892-1913) They selected a pious gentleman, whose name I have forgotten, and we left St. Paul at four o'clock one winter morning, in a prairie schooner on bob-sleds, to ride to La Crosse. Half a Century Yet men will drive their prairie schooners to a spot which pleases them and say: 'Here, I will have this place for my home.' The Gringos "Well, here comes the wagon now," observed Mrs. Wilder as she caught sight of the big white-covered wagon, called a prairie schooner in the old days, bobbing over the plains about a mile away. Comrades of the Saddle The Young Rough Riders of the Plains Such as could not afford a "prairie schooner," as the canvas-covered wagon was called, put their worldly goods into handcarts. A School History of the United States We little folk sat in the wagons with our dolls, watching the huge white-covered "prairie schooners" coming from Santa Fé to Independence for merchandise. The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate Before her rolled the quarter section, except for the little box-house, as bare of fences and buildings as when the Wades had first camped on it in their prairie schooner. Dust "Please Ma'ams"—A desperado—A cattle hunt—The muster—A mad cow—A snowstorm—Snowed up—Birdie—The Plains—A prairie schooner—Denver—A find—Plum Creek—"Being agreeable"—Snowbound—The grey mare. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains Then came the prairie schooners that bore, from Utah, men and women to people and redeem the arid southland valleys. Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert We talk and my friend becomes reminiscent on the subject of stage coaches and prairie schooners and the days before there were railroads, telephones, electricity and crowds. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago On top of the prairie schooner the Spirit of Enterprise is represented by a spirited winged figure, with a boy at either hand. An Art-Lovers Guide to the Exposition A prairie schooner, or a wagon with a covering to protect the inmates from the weather and secure a certain amount of privacy for the women and children, was an indispensable item. My Native Land The United States: its Wonders, its Beauties, and its People; with Descriptive Notes, Character Sketches, Folk Lore, Traditions, Legends and History, for the Amusement of the Old and the Instruction of the Young "Please Ma'ams"—A desperado—A cattle hunt—The muster—A mad cow—A snowstorm—Snowed up—Birdie—The Plains—A prairie schooner—Denver—A find—Plum Creek—"Being agreeable"—Snowbound—The grey mare. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains After the war he married, crossed the plains in a "prairie schooner," and, eventually, took up six hundred and forty acres of Government land in San Lorenzo County. Bunch Grass A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch From it, day after day, went a score of prairie schooners drawn by horses, mules, or oxen. A Brief History of the United States The way in which the two groups balance each other at the two ends of the court is worthy of study-the elephant of the one offset by the prairie schooner of the other. An Art-Lovers Guide to the Exposition Imagine, children, how, years ago, the cowboys and hunters had to go on horses all the distance out West, and carry their food on their pony's back or in a wagon called a prairie schooner. Curlytops at Uncle Frank's Ranch Their wedding tour was in a prairie schooner from Atchison to the semi-fertile region which borders on the desert belt which stretches through western Nebraska and Kansas to New Mexico. Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic" The prairie schooner that forms the axis of the Nations of the West is crowned by an animated, imaginative group so perfectly co-ordinated with the realistic main composition that it causes no sense of discord. The Sculpture and Mural Decorations of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Art of the Panama-Pacific international exposition The year before my birth these two young people started West in a prairie schooner to stake a homestead claim. The Log-Cabin Lady — An Anonymous Autobiography A woman and several children complete the group, and at the back is a prairie schooner, from which a girl waves a flag. An Art-Lovers Guide to the Exposition It was an accomplishment to balance the huge bulk of an elephant by a prairie schooner on the opposite side of the court. The Art of the Exposition In the center of this well-balanced pyramidal group, surmounted by Enterprise and drawn by sturdy oxen, comes the old prairie schooner. Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts Merchandise brought in by caravans of "prairie schooners," was sold as fast as it could be put out; and strict rules were enforced allowing but a proportionate amount to each purchaser. The Story of "Mormonism" I am not long out before meeting with that characteristic feature of a scene on the Western plains, a "prairie schooner;" and meeting prairie schooners will now be a daily incident of my eastward journey. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran On the left an ox-drawn prairie schooner has arrived at the shore, with types of Western civilization. An Art-Lovers Guide to the Exposition In that case I shall stencil Pike's Peak or Bust! on the sidebreadth and go as a prairie schooner. Europe Revised As a mercantile supply depot for New Mexico and Colorado, Junction City was the port from whence a numerous fleet of prairie schooners sailed, laden with the necessities and luxuries of an advancing civilization. Tales of Aztlan; the Romance of a Hero of our Late Spanish-American War, Incidents of Interest from the Life of a western Pioneer and Other Tales They were tented over and were so huge that whole families lived in them, and they were given the name of prairie schooners. This Country of Ours The end gate of a prairie schooner was lost on a hill, and Tail Gate mountain came into being. Down the Mother Lode It's a question in my mind whether this woman quite represents the vigorous type that came over the plains in the prairie schooner. The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts and palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with a discussion of its architecture, its sculpture, its mural decorations, its coloring and its lighting, preceded by a history of its growth But the usual conveyance was the canvas-covered wagon—ancestor of the "prairie schooner" of the western plains—drawn over the rough and muddy roads by four, or even six, horses. The Old Northwest : A chronicle of the Ohio Valley and beyond Along the main-travelled road trailed an endless line of prairie schooners. Main-Travelled Roads Observing it, the humorist kindly condescended to explain that "prairie schooner" was the current slang for an emigrant wagon. A Waif of the Plains Say, you shanghaied me on your d--d old prairie schooner--did I tell you to drive me to a farm? Heart of the West Calder had the idea of using the prairie schooner, associated with the coming of the pioneers to California, drawn by great oxen. The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts and palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with a discussion of its architecture, its sculpture, its mural decorations, its coloring and its lighting, preceded by a history of its growth Bob Birnie and another man turned and came trotting back, and at the call a scrambling youngster peered over his mother's shoulder in the forward opening of the prairie schooner. Cow-Country Even in America within the memory of men still living, the lumbering, white-topped ``prairie schooner'' was the only conveyance for the tedious overland journey to California. New Forces in Old China An Inevitable Awakening She knew it had crossed the plains with her people in a prairie schooner. The Valley of the Moon The long, narrow, hooded wagon, drawn by swaying oxen, known familiarly as a "prairie schooner," in which he journeyed across the plains to California in '53, did not help his conception by that nautical figure. Selected Stories of Bret Harte So far as details were concerned, they were her own creation, for she had never seen an ox, a wild Indian, nor a prairie schooner. The Valley of the Moon |
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