prairie schooner

English

Noun

prairie schooner (plural prairie schooners)

1. A horse-drawn wagon used to transport people and goods in the American west of the 18th and 19th centuries.
   • 1864, Charles S. Bryant, Abel B. Murch, A History of the Great Massacre by the Sioux Indians, in Minnesota: Including the Personal Narratives of Many who Escaped, Rickey & Carroll, page 112:

     It was what we call a "prairie schooner," covered with cloth, a genuine emigrant wagon.

See also

• Conestoga wagon