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Article: Conestoga Wagon
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- Dictionary of American History
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CONESTOGA WAGON
CONESTOGA WAGON
is one of the most distinctively American vehicles. Originating among the Pennsylvania Dutch, it first came into general use on the overland routes across the Alleghenies just after the American Revolution. The Conestoga wagon was huge and heavily built, with broad wheels suited to dirt roads and a bed higher at either end of the wagon than in the middle. Its canvas-covered top presaged the prairie schooner of a later ...
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Article: Conestoga wagon discussion slated
Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA;
December 7, 2006 ;
251 words
...Conestoga wagon myths and facts will be discussed when Millersville Area Historical Society meets Saturday at 9 a.m. in the Millersville Borough ...
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