prairie wagon

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prairie wagon - a large wagon with broad wheels and an arched canvas top; used by the United States pioneers to cross the prairies in the 19th century

Conestoga, Conestoga wagon, covered wagon, prairie schooner

waggon, wagon - any of various kinds of wheeled vehicles drawn by an animal or a tractor

caravan, wagon train, train - a procession (of wagons or mules or camels) traveling together in single file; "we were part of a caravan of almost a thousand camels"; "they joined the wagon train for safety"

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The Lester's Oil name, evocative though it may be of an old prairie wagon covered in tin pots and driven by a guy in a dusty top-hat, actually refers to Lester, the late father of company director Dan King.

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Admittedly the premise takes a leap of faith on the part of the reader: Colleen's mother gives birth to an infant who dies just as a woman alone in a prairie wagon dies, handing her tiny infant over to Colleen to care for.