Word: conestogas
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Westward of Philadelphia the distances were too long for peddlers, so freight creaked through the mountains to Pittsburgh at $3 per ton, on blue and red Conestoga wagons, the drivers rolling "stogies" between mudholes...
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...prairie schooner" was usually referred to as the "Conestoga" wagon. It took its name from the vehicle-the predecessor of the modern freight car-which carried freight in the 1790's from Philadelphia to Lancaster and the Conestoga country over the Old Lancaster Pike. When this road, the pioneer turnpike of the continent, was extended westward over the Alleghenies into Steubenville and the Ohio Lands, the Conestoga Wagon went with it and so became a symbol of the westward march of the pioneer...