prairie wagon†

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prairie immigrant wagon

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any of various types of wagon used by settlers in the westward migration of the nineteenth century.

1888

The Indian dogs or huskies haul the portable canvas house--like the top of a prairie immigrant waggon on runners. . . .

1909

He [the Mountie] brands stray cattle, interrogates each new arrival in a prairie-waggon . . . herds wood bison on the Slave. . . .