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
How To Use prairie schooner In A Sentence
- It carried passengers in new stagecoaches and freight from the mines using twelve-mule teams and prairie schooners pulled by sixteen oxen plus six spare animals.
- It was an old spring-wagon, with a round canvas top on it like the cover of a prairie schooner.
- His poems have appeared or are soon forthcoming in The Atlantic Monthly, Prairie Schooner, Zyzzyva, PN Review (UK), The Southern Review, and elsewhere. John Struloeff reads “The Chimney Sweeper” by William Blake
- The teamsters, surly and self-contained, wear slouch hats and great cowhide boots; while the stage-drivers, their faces seamed by the hardship and exposure of their long drives with every kind of team, through every kind of country, and in every kind of weather, proud of their really wonderful skill as reinsmen and conscious of their high standing in any frontier community, look down on and sneer at the "skin hunters" and the plodding drivers of the white-topped prairie schooners. The Cattle Country of the Far West