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A covered wagon, also called a prairie wagon, whitetop, [1] or prairie schooner, [2] is a horse-drawn or ox-drawn wagon used for passengers or freight hauling. It has a canvas, tarpaulin, or waterproof sheet which is stretched over removable wooden bows (also called hoops or tilts) and lashed to the body of the wagon.
The Conestoga-type wagon is said to be from the 1860s. “It’s in bad shape. It’s falling down.” ... 1963, showed the prairie schooner at the opening celebration of the Old Westport Shopping ...
Conestoga wagons used for hauling and farming may have been complemented with different wheel size sets for performing different transversal duties, from small wheels for farms to large ones for road travel. Medium-sized wheels normally contain 14 spokes (or rods connecting to the wheel's center) while large wheels usually have 16 of them. [26]
manufactured conestoga wagons, horse-drawn carriages, electric cars, automobiles Clement and Henry Studebaker Jr., became blacksmiths and foundrymen in South Bend, Indiana , in February 1852. [ 6 ] : 229 [ 45 ] They first made metal parts for freight wagons and later expanded into the manufacture of complete wagons.
This review is transcluded from Talk:Conestoga wagon/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review. Nominator: PrimalMustelid (talk · contribs) 11:02, 25 April 2024 (UTC) Reviewer: Generalissima (talk · contribs) 00:56, 21 November 2024 (UTC) I aim to check this out this weekend.
Varieties of this wagon include the Conestoga wagon (larger wagons able to carry large amounts of goods and primarily used on flat trails, for example, the Santa Fe Trail) and prairie schooner (smaller wagons more suited for mountainous regions, for example, the Oregon and California Trails).
Conestoga Traction began operations in 1899. CTs rural trolley system provided reliable and relatively fast transportation between many southeastern Pennsylvania farm towns in the days when people traveled in horse drawn buggies and freight traveled in horse-drawn wagons on narrow wandering dusty roads in summer or rutted deep mud roads in winter.
Source: The Conestoga Wagon of Pennsylvania (p. 155-163) ALT2: ... that of the 156 Conestoga wagons (pictured) brought to the Braddock Expedition of the French and Indian War, only one remained intact by the campaign's end? Source: Conestoga Wagons in Braddock's Campaign, 1755 (p. 142-153).