Lexic.us

Definition of Prairie wagon

1. Noun. 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.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Prairie Wagon

Literary usage of Prairie wagon

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Laws of the Territory of Idaho by Idaho (Ter.) (1866)
"AN ACT To Incorporate the Yula and Big Camas prairie wagon Road Company. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Idaho, ..."

2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1867)
"... and Kiowas around him, as he bumped and banged along in the prairie wagon,— not unpleasantly, we think, since a little spice of adventure is absolutely ..."

3. Hunting Trips on the Prairie and in the Mountains by Theodore Roosevelt (1885)
"... the shadowy white outlines of something which looms vaguely up till it looks as large as the canvas-top of a prairie wagon; but as the horseman comes ..."

4. Hunting Trips on the Prairie and in the Mountains by Theodore Roosevelt (1885)
"... the shadowy white outlines of something which looms vaguely up till it looks as large as the canvas-top of a prairie wagon; but as the horseman comes ..."

5. Laws of the Territory of Idaho by Idaho (1866)
"AN ACT To Incorporate the Yuba and Big Camas prairie wagon Road Company. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Idaho, ..."

6. Literary California, Poetry, Prose and Portraits by Ella Sterling Mighels (1918)
""THE NATIONS OF THE WEST" The Nations of the West are grouped around that prairie wagon, drawn by two oxen. In the center stands the Mother of Tomorrow, ..."

7. Literary California, Poetry, Prose and Portraits by Ella Sterling Mighels (1918)
""THE NATIONS OF THE WEST" The Nations of the West are grouped around that prairie wagon, drawn by two oxen. In the center stands the Mother of Tomorrow, ..."

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