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...Eave Two-Man and Eave Three-Man. Rounded on top like Conestoga wagons, these tents take two minutes to erect and have withstood winds up to 80 m.p.h. No center pole or ropes are needed, and the tent breathes through a porous cloth roof protected by a waterproof "fly" that overhangs it like an eave. The three-person version weighs 6 lbs. and costs...
...Girl growling and Stefan sad. Merilee a proper wife holding her tongue. Thinking, " If there's no money, then we'll have no fig trees. Our ancestors crossed the Donner and left Tulsa in their Conestoga wagons to escape just such old-fashioned logical connectors." And if Sam Bollo thought he was the hot shit who could deny her what she had always wanted just through some old cranky Philadelphia logic, then...
...CHOICE OF AMERICANS-Lewison, 50 East 76th. Just the thing for a hot day: Bierstadt's small Washington, D.C. in 1863 showing Conestoga wagons winding along the Potomac, Cole's English Landscape in which couples as well as cows find coolness by a stream, Moro's Beach at Cape Cod, Lawson's impressionistic Landscape in pinks and greens, Ochtman's Mill Pond, Casilear's New Hampshire ravine, an unusual treatment of texture in rocks, moss and wood. Through June...
...Horses. No one used Conestoga wagons; they were too ungainly. Smaller ones, with boxes about 9 ft. by 4 ft., were popular. They were not called prairie schooners. When deep rivers were encountered, the bottom of the boxes could be covered with canvas or hides; off came the wheels and the vehicle became a boat. On land, they were pulled by oxen or mules, mainly oxen, because an ox cost only $25, a mule $75. No horses. Too weak...
...group started a "Citizens for Studebaker" committee, toured the area soliciting pledges to buy a new 1959 Studebaker, issued 60,000 stickers and 10,000 buttons promoting the Lark, wrote' letters, gave speeches, finally staged a huge parade depicting the company history from Studebaker's first Conestoga wagon in 1852 to the present. The county A.F.L.-C.I.O. council mailed 14,000 letters across the U.S. pushing the Lark. Along South Bend streets, every third street lamp was plastered with...