Word: wagoneer
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...face of the assault from pale-faced city slickers. Land worth $8 to $10 an acre a few years back was going for as much as $100. Drawled one old rancher: "They want a place where they can keep some horses, have a big hat, boots and station wagon with their name on the side...
Brady had found his war work. Soon President Lincoln gave him a nodded permission to accompany the Union armies even on the battlefields. Soon Brady and his "Whatizzit," the wagon that carried his camera and supplies, were familiar features of the Civil War. Brady's equipment was heavy and he was usually forced to make his pictures after the fighting was over. But he was under fire at Bull Run and Petersburg, was nearly killed at Fredericksburg. The result was a magnificent pictorial record of war (the first and perhaps the best ever made...
...older, big, burly "N.C." concentrated on painting with studied care everyday landscapes and people. They sold well; one of them last year was voted best-in-the-show by gallery-goers at Washington's biennial Corcoran show. In October, Wyeth and a grandson, riding in a station wagon, were struck and killed by a train...
Smash Hit. In San Francisco, a streetcar crashed with complete abandon into a Navy shore patrol wagon, drew cheers from watching sailors...
Justice of the Peace. In Des Moines, a patron charged with disturbing the peace at the Covered Wagon nightclub was freed by a judge on the ground there was no peace in the club to disturb...